Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Connectivity Is Not The Right Word

2003-11-06 Thread Guido Sohne
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:26, Peter Burgess wrote: > My vote is for narrowband EVERYWHERE connecting little local nodes. > Improve the local infrastructure, and don't focus just on the > international part of it. And my vote is for using technology to reduce > the cost and price of basic communicat

Re:[GKD-DOTCOM] Connectivity Is Not The Right Word

2003-11-05 Thread Peter Burgess
Dear Colleagues, Broadband is a real enemy of development. One of my staff summed up the situation in the underdeveloped SOUTH way back in the 1970s when he said that "Every year that goes by they get another 10 years behind". And broadband is the sort of technology initiative that helps make th