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Telecoms and Wireless in Afghanistan: One Year Later is a nice brief report on the state of telecommunications infrastructure in Afghanistan. It features 2 interesting stories about the development in the past year, and about a possible path to follow in the future. Specifically the article entitled, "Telecommunications in
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riptari filter: Facing Kenny's Figure What we really ought to be doing, all of us who are taking an interest in the internet's expansion, is not only to follow Mr. Kelly's example by continuing to openly, frequently criticize the call for universal access, but
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On the one hand there's warchalking and wardriving, warflying and warwalking, warcykling and warsailing On the other hand there's dogvertising... and now there's warbarking.... Strap that Zaurus running kismet to the bacl of your dog, toad, ferret or whatever you take to the park
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I'm working on an FAQ for ICT in development issues. Mostly trying to offset some of the frequent questions about the suitability of wireless, but also more generally about ICTs for development. Nothing spectacularly revolutionary, but just an atempt at clarifying my position on some important questions, such
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According to the Red Book of Westmarch, In Middle-earth, Tomas Krag was a Creepy Brandybuck The Barrow-Downs: Multi-Name-Generator
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Have a look at this. It's a clever remix of Bush infamous state of the union adress. it's really well done, and eerie in it's honesty :-)
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I recommend AirShare, a new community wireless website with good introductions to War-walking, chalking and barking, as well as how to run your own wireless isp, and other stuff. it's not that there aren't a lot of wireless related websites out there, what with wirelesscommons, WiFi
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For anyone wondering exactly what Open Spectrum policy is all about, and why it matters, there's a great FAQ over at GreaterDemocracy.org. I recommend it, including many of the links it contains. Open Spectrum FAQ
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This entry over at the Riptari Filter: Riptari Filter: The Search for life on Mars Makes some interesting points, comparing "bridging the digital divide" with "Searching for life on Mars". Ethan made similar points in friday's lecture at Harvard. Namely that the goal of
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so there's all these people here in cambridge interested in ICT's for development. and each has his/her own perspective. it's not so much that they disagree, but more that they seem to focus on different areas of the problem. Geoffrey is very much
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some times i happen across words in the english language, in a book, or in the course of a conversation. and it's not the words that are completely new or incomprehensible to me that are interesting here, although those pop up at intervals as well. it's
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As some of you may have noticed (Honestly I don't even know if anyone reads this blog), apart from my family and my friend Louise who leaves a comment once in a while), i've changed the lay-out of my blog. i've borrowed style-sheets heavily