1. One of the key policy changes required to unlease a flood of
investment, job creation, and related benefits is for developing
countries to make unlicensed spectrum actually available for commercial
use, without licenses, fees, or other government approvals. WiFi uses
outside of specific establis
Dear Colleagues,
I was interested in the post by Daniel F. Bassill in large part because
his goal is similar to my own and his accomplishments rather modest. The
opportunity to use modern ICT to achieve a breakthrough in the use of
knowledge to improve development performance is huge, but it is no
Regarding intermediaries, and the use of written English amongst Yoruba
speaking people, Pat Hall asked me to explain more about the situation
in Oke-Ogun:
> Pam, is there something else going on here - perhaps the language
> policies of Nigeria have led to the education system favouring English?
Pat Hall's questions for Pam McLean open up a whole range of issues
regarding the intersection of sociolinguistics, and language and
education policies with ICT policy that are pertinent to the discussion
but probably need to be explored in depth elsewhere. I'll let Pam reply
on the particular case
After lurking on the list for more than a week, allow me to introduce
myself. I am director for the Uconnect Schools Project. Our NGO is
providing computers to mostly rural primary and secondary schools in
Uganda. Schools pay something less than $200 for each computer, which is
enough for us to con
