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Thanks to riptari for this analogy related to giving Internet to people who don't want it Tigers eat meat, so if you talk loudly and repeatedly about how great it is that you're offering them bigger and bigger mountains of spinach salad every day, I think
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MIT, apparently has a Free / Open Source Research Community e.mit.edu/ There's a list of Research papers and researchers, and I found 2 projects that might be relevant, during my VERY brief wandering through the material: Software Freedom, Open Software and the Participant's Motivation -
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Linx The train from Copenhagen to Göteborg in Sweden will soon be the first to provide WiFi access while in transit...
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The Canadian Aid Agency IDRC, has a fabulous research project called Acacia. * demonstrate how ICTs can enable communities to solve their development problems in ways that build firmly on local goals, cultures, strengths, and processes; * build a body of knowledge capable of identifying the policies, technologies, approaches, and methodologies instrumental
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CNN Specials - Virtual Villages This Flash-based (why?) website has 4 examples of IT use in the developing world. It's a bit blue-eyed, a mass-media fashion, and has no info on the price or cost/benefit of these projects. It's nice and shiny though, and examples
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freenetworks.org has a call for papers out for FreeNetworks Conference 2003. They call it the first dedicated international community networking conference I would have to disagree, but in a smiling, happy way only, seeing as we're arranmging the Copenhagen Interpolation here in just 3 weeks or so.
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Riptari refers to an article by Roberto Verzola, with a comparison of the cost benefit of community radio vs. internet access for the poor. While in general the article is spot-on when analysing the cost: Low-power radio: This technology is definitely affordable to low-income sectors (those earning US$5/day
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FITU is a danish forum for IT in development, started mid-last year by member of Parliament Lone Dybkjær, Founder of Metrocomia, David Madié, and Mathilde and Jeppe Rude. The Forum aims to bring together the public, private and civic sectors working on ICT issues in development. Both sebastian and I
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I got a crazy idea today. As some of you know I've sent in an application to go get my master's at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on wireless networks in the developing world. Part of that is that I know I want to work with
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A common argument about delivering Internet to the developing world, is that given IP networks, VoIP is practically free. Blog.org attributes it to my friend Howard Rheingold: Howard Rheingold The argument is very valid, at least in theory, but it has to be remembered, that while infrastructure for Internet
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Just a typical sunday... i'm too far into the dolldrums to do anything useful. i spent a few hours trying to get some work done, and there's plenty more where that came from, but today apparenmtly isn't the day. so what do i do?
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Copenhagen Interpolation The Copenhagen Interpolation is a wireless, community and free networking event in Copenhagen, Denmark Don't forget to check it out. It'll be a fun, free, grassroots event, held by wire.less.dk and informal. There'll be discussions about wireless technology, and ICT&