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Interesting projects from MIT Medialab Asia
Bicycle powered computer: 802.11b coverage in the India: The second one is very close to what we're planning for various parts of the world.
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Kofi Annan’s IT challenge
While I was away in Armenia trying to do my part in bridging the digital divide, Kofi Annan wrote this article on CNet's news.com It basically reads as a challenge to the private IT sector to start thinking about the digital divide, and there's an
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Just wanted to share a link
It's digital divide related, it's from the BBC On-line and hi hope it's worth something to someone out there: BBC Digital Destinations
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Armenia
It looks like there's a good chance that'll i'll be spending part of october in Yerevan, Armenia, courtesy of za href="http://www.geekcorps.org/">GeekCorps, and the wonderful crew that sent me to Ghana way back when. Anyway, on the
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off-line web
Off-line internet. BBC this story on BBC is about a technican with a laptop who drives around to villages in India with downloaded, off-line content from the web. users can read the available pages and order other pages which then arrive after a day or two. it reminds me of
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In the “why, oh why” section…
Howard Rheingold sent me an e-mail with a fairly innocuous question about my peronal reason for leaving a 'normal' job to work with Digital Divide issues and wire.less.dk. It's something I've spent a part of my recent vacation (Vienna, Slovakia, Prague) thinking
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Growing Interest in Digital Divide
Since I lead an Open Space session on IT and the developing world, at last weeks conference, I have met a few people with interesting thoughts on the matter of helping people less fortunate than one-self, on technology in the developing world, and generally on the difference between worth-while passtimes
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Digital Divide
I basically started this new blog because a lot has been happening in my life, and my professional (and to a degree personal) focus has changed drastically from being mostly a technologist to thinking mostly about ways of bridging the digital divide. Many things, that I used to write about