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After a number of requests (well actually two), I've thrown together a quick translation of the article on Ghana Telecom in which I am heavily quoted. I posted this shameless plug yesterday. And got these comments: Tomas I am going have to learn danish if I want to
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Danish tech-weekly ComOn, has latched onto the story of Ghana Telecoms woes and their recent shut-down of all ISP's in the country. And I'm heavily quoted in their online article. (in danish). Since ComOn provides tech-news for a number of other sites, the article has also
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Open Source Foundation for Africa It all started during the ICT policy and civil society workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when 82 participants from 25 different countries invited by APC, Article 19 and UNECA assembled to discuss ICTs in Africa. The workshop participants agreed that open source software is paramount
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The last few days have added a little bit to the press we're receiving for our wireless bike project. First the Danish daily berlingske ran this article in their monday business section with a picture of Sebastian, Peter O'Neill and myself. And today we got a
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InfoWorld: Nokia catalyzes handset evolution: March 21, 2003 By Mark Jones: Wireless Nokia is working hard on 802.11 to cellular hand-off including handsets that support both types of wireless networks, and the carrier systems to support such switching technology. This infoworld article deals with the real issues, namely managing
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The Wage Slave Journal: George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil Keep track of Dubya's evil deeds. This is a list of 'evil' deeds that dubya has had the good fortune to instigate. For each deed there is a link to a newspaper article for documentation. OK,
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According to this NYT article Hewlett-Packard is involved in a projec to standardize and add efficiency to micro-finance institutions in the worlds poorest nations. Microfinance is one of those development efforts that everyone seems to agree, are really important, effective and actually work (which is not the case for most
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bridges.org - case studies and bridge builders One of my favourite on-line references on ict 4 development (bridges.org, has a case study on one of my favourite ict ngo's, GeekCorps. The bridges.org IICD Case Study Series on ICT-Enabled Development sets out to illustrate how information
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so i've added part of my galeon bookmark file to the information available on this website. More precisely, those categories on this website for which I have a lot of bookmarks, have gotten a link to those bookmarks in html format. For now that includes the categories ICT
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The press has started to come in. First there was a full-page article in last weeks paper-edition of the Danish technology paper ComOn. I'm working on a scan of that for our website. It'll be in later. Then there was a 12 minute section on the
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Blog.org: Best of blog.org Archives blog.org has a comment on happiness, and our search for it, which reminded me of my recent contact with Happiness Foundation. Happiness foundation is quite an ambitious NGO project with the general goal to promote happiness in the world. It has roots
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The long-list of projects using WiFi to deliver Internet Access in the developing world, just keeps getting longer. So even if we haven't been successful in funding our various project ideas in this direction, here is yet more proof that there is nothing wrong with our vision: IDRC