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I've joined Affero as a volunteer. In their own words Affero: Also, the system doesn't come bundled with any particular forum or community platform, so any independent community host can integrate the services and individuals can share reputation across various communities. In other words, the idea
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As some of you know, I spend quite some time thinking about why. Why I left a good, solid job in the Internet industry to first go to Africa as a volunteer, and later spend most of my savings, and a whole bucket of time working with non-commercial non-profit stuff
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A few days ago, I commented on an article by Dr. Kenny in Foreign Policy. David Brake @ Blog.org adds his comments [via riptari] Most importantly, while subsidising universal access may be excessive at this stage in the development of the Internet, that doesn't mean that as costs
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Peter Thomas suggests applying to attend the world summit on the information society, even though it's highly unlikely that an inexperienced, and small ngo like ours will get a place. Probably more likely to happen through fitu. On the other hand, I might as well. So I will.
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riptari filter: Bridging the Financial Divide Peter Thomas, points out that the main problem is not a Digital Divide, but rather a financial divide. Or more precisely that the Digital Divide is merely the results of a financial divide, the point being that even in real terms internet access charges
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The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
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Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? Lawrence Lessig is holding a conference to answer the question: Should spectrum be treated as property or a commons? It's march 1st-2nd @ stanford. That puts it in the same weekend as our Copenhagen Interpolation conference.
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riptari filter again ;-) "the digital efficacy continuum" as a replacement for the all too binary and simplistic "digital divide". I love it.... I think it's worthy of at least an e-mail signature, and maybe even a t-shirt? But what do you do to
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CNN.com - At 74, Internet cowboy spreads wireless - Jan. 26, 2003 Now here's what I call a good guy. Dave Hughes has done some pretty amazing stuff with wireless in various parts of the world. He's one of those guys that is right out
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The riptari filter asks: Where are the ICT Web Logs? I feel obliged to answer. Have a look at GeekHalla which is the unofficial site of for GeekCorps volunteers. The Rwanda section has the diary of David Smith, who was recently there for 6 weeks working on a programming gig,
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Wow, these last days, there's been quite some trackback activity between this blog, and Peter Thomas' riptari filter. i'm tying to absorb his pov as fast as possible. he just commented on a recent post of mine. Commenting on this article at ICT Update: The
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FAQ on ICT for development I've put up a first version of my FAQ on ICT for development. It focuses on the obvious, namely what were doing at wire.less.dk, but also has some general sections on ICT for development. For now it's over at