Don Richardson asked that we add examples to those he enumerated,
regarding ICT initiatives that fail to attract attention because no
donor is involved. Here is one:
- the effect of moble phones in unconnected rural remote areas. These
are actually fall outs from major market centres like big
In response to Sam Lanfranco's contribution about ICT for poverty
reduction, I would like to confirm his observation that too little funds
are available for thorough research into evidence building around ICT
for poverty reduction.
One exception at least I know of is British DFID that does
In response to Sam Lanfranco's response to Cornelio Hopmann:
Wow!
Everything you say feels true
It explains my feelings and experience on behalf of OOCD 2000+ (Oke-Ogun
Community Development 2000Plus) since I responded to the community
request that I would be their bridge across the digital
Thanks to Sam Lanfranco for a refreshing perspective. I agree with much of
what Sam says regarding the reasons for the ICT poverty reduction
research/evidence vacuum.
I would like to add an additional point, and draw on the insights of Tom
Wolfe on the social context of self promotion. In
In response to Cornelio Hopmann's query about hard evidence on a
measurable and scaleable impact of ICT on Poverty Reduction, sustained
by hard evidence I would like to add a slightly different perspective
to that offered by by Michael Gurstein in his February 12th posting. I
will use the phrase
I write in response to Cornelio Hopmann, quoted below.
If anyone does know of a good example of the kind of software he
suggests, please let me know about it too. It could be the kind of thing
that would help us to work effectively, regarding the proposed
Biodesign/Sunshine
Vickram, my organisation is in the process of helping the people of the
Upper East Region Ghana, in the conflict prone district of Bawku East to
use radio to break barriers to access to information. The people from a
preliminiary baseline survey overwhelmly choose the path of radio as a
means of
Dear Michael,
I am well aware of the claimed global impact of ICT on overall
capital-productivity, i.e. that improved supply- and distribution
chain-management reduced the amount of capital bound to goods in store,
that improved decision making reduced time-to-market, that standardizing
