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Wireless Ghana - Broadband for the West African village.
Yet another of the many ruaral wireless projects that are springing up around the world. Wireless Ghana - Broadband for the West African village. Having been an active advocate and tech trainer on this type of project for about 3 years, it warms my heart whenever i see a project
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ZDnet covers wireless roadshow
Open-source Wi-Fi links remote communities - ZDNet UK News ZDNet UK has an article about our ongoing Wireless Roadshow. They interviewed our colleague Simon Crab, who is the UK branch of our gig, and heads up Informal, the UK non-profit that we are doing the Roadshow with. It's
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Don’t get seduced by ICT
One of my favourite blogs dealing with ICTs in development, Deeshaa, mentions a recent keynote by prof Ken Keniston of MIT. He laid out 5 important points when dealing with ICTs for development. They may be obvious to many, but they are valid and important to remember, nevertheless: Prof Ken
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Globalization II (WOS3)
Wizard of OS: Globalisierung II. This panel is just getting started, with Thorsten Schilling moderating. Thorsten just had a standard intro, not too interesting, definitely not provocative. My uncoordinated notes will be here
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i4donline feature on wireless
The magazine that styles itself "The First monthly magazine on ict4d" has a new issue on the streets, and this one is all about Wireless Communications in the developing world. And with entries from some of the top people in this arena, it's an issue well
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LinuxForum presentation
For those of you who understand my father-tongue (danish), there is now a streaming (realplayer) version of my recent presentation at LinuxForum 2004 here in Copenhagen. I think it's one of the best presentations I have given in quite some time, which is fairly surprising to me. I
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AfricaSource
So it's the final day of AfricaSource. One of the professionally most exciting events I have attended in the past 18 months is coming to a close. All we have to do, as we wrap up, is burn about 60 CD's with digital photos from a
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LinuxForum 2004
This past weekend we had the good fortune to be involved in the 2004 LinuxForum here in Copenhagen. Since we participated last year with the crazy CopenhagenConnectedCycle, they had kindly asked us if we had something to participate with again. Did we ever :-) We actually ended up doing a
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Wireless Roadshow - Status
The Wireless Roadshow is obviously my main focus this year, and I've spent a large part of whatever time I have been able to work, trying to get the ball rolling on the preparation for this project. Recently I went to Istanbul to address the Open Society Institute&
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My talk at ETech
So I did my talk yesterday at ETech. I think it went pretty well, although perhaps I should have focused a little more on the tech side of things. Turn-out was ok, considering that I was competing directly with Danny NTK O'Brien, talking about alpha-geeks and their habits.
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Priya Prakesh: Project Miljul
I'm in a talk now by Priya Prakesh on Project Miljul, which was a 4 week research project to find out how workers in india use their mobile phones. In fact it's a talk on user centric design, with the unique perspective of indian culture as