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First Mile Workshop The Swedish International Cooperation Agency and the UN ICT Task Force as having an International Workshop on Open Access issues in Kista, Stockholm on June 5th - 6th 2003. It looks interesting enough, and there is a nice place to register on the website, but apparently that
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The WiFi Opportunity for Developing Nations W2i: THE WIRELESS INTERNET INSTITUTE and the UN ICT Taskforce is holding a conference in New York about WiFi and it's applications in the Developing world. It's on the 26th of June. I'm not sure I'll
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I'm back in Denmark. No hiding here. It was a wonderful vacation, and Brazil remains high on my list of wonderful countries. Lençois and the Chapada Diamantina, in Central Bahia are especially recommended. There are pictures to be seen here, and perhaps some updated entries from my little
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Kissing Hank's Ass This is funny.. I mean it's a piss take on reliogion, so not everyone will find it funny, but I did. nuff said. [via Nu Dey's Weblog]
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So, I had a plan.... to update this page with a few brief travelaccounts once a week while i was away. Part one of the plan has been succesful. i´ve written a few brief accounts of special experiences in my small leather-bound moleskine notebook (incidentally the notebook favoured by
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Yes, yes, yes..... I'm going to Bahia, with a brief stop in Rio and a trip to Pernambuco. Brazil, here we come. Since the girl of my dreams has finished her Masters degree and is now officially an engineer, AND has landed a dream job in a difficult
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The Berkman Center on-line course on Development and the Internet has started. Some interesting material in the first round on Internet Architecture, although, as a long-time Internet professional, and someone who's had the distinct pleasure of working hands-on with IT in the developing world, there was little tio
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A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK [via Ben Hammersley
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The newest issue of the Balancing Act Africa newletter arrived yesterday. As usual Russel Southwood fills the issue (151) with astute analysis, news and updates on telecoms in Africa. But in this issue the cover story is entitled Broadband Wireless Access - Could it Give Incumbent Telcos a Run for
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Welcome to Development and the Internet It looks as if, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard Law School is giving a free, 5-week on-line course in Internet and Development. While I don't know how the teaching, reading and discussions will be, I do know most of
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I constantly find that there just isn't enough cynicism to go round these days. Don't expect me to blog a lot aolut the war in Iraq, because the level of hypocrisy disguides as 'realpolitik' and the numbers and depths of the lies (on both
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Riptari - Geo::Sketch I managed to get Peter Thomas' GeoSketch plugin working on our webserver. He asked me to test it for him earlier in the week, and I ran into some problems. Apparently the perl version on our server is 5.6.1, and the plugin is