My name is Jorge Duran and i work as Senior Technology for Development
Advisor at the InterAmerican Agency for Cooporation and Development of
the Organization of American States in Washington, DC.
The Moderator has asked:
3. Can information distribution centers (e.g., public access
On Monday, November 10, 2003, Ben Parker wrote:
The other major challenge we face in two remote telecentres
UNICEF supports in southern Sudan (at least two days from the nearest
telephone) is the generators. These need lots of fuel and oil and are
prone to breakdown. Regular desktops are much
Simon Woodside wrote:
Not only that, but the high cost of a PC or a laptop needs to be
considered. A PC is expensive, whether it's connected to high-bandwidth
or low. So a substantial sum of the total ICT investment isn't going to
change no matter what the bandwidth plan might be.
I would beg
Ben Parker asked about experiences on solar powered VSAT
I don't have time to give details now but can't let the question go by
without brief reference to the Solo. It is designed for rural Africa. I
saw the second generation prototype during field trials in Oke-Ogun. I
undertand that some
Right, Peter!
You've extended my argument yet another step past the ICT solution
(where I had chosen to end my examples at the border of ICT and non-ICT
solutions), and I entirely agree.
You can still go into markets in much of the developing world and find
someone whose business it is to write
