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Andrew McLaughlin has a very simple question over at the newly opened XDev - Extreme Development Blog. Another great resource from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. And this time I've been invited to be part o this group blog, so expect to read much more about
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BBC NEWS | World | From Our Own Correspondent | India's digital divide BBC's Jill McGivering relates her own experience of the Indian IT miracle. It is an article well worth reading, a reminder against the dangers of looking at India and seeing a miracle caused by IT. It
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Blogging Feature (John Daly) Just a little self-promotion. The latest mail-out to the ict4dev community on Development Gateway links to an article by John Daly on blogging for development. And one of the examples used in the article is the ict4dev section of my very own multiplicity blog. So afterall,
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The UN Association, in cooperation with assorted parners (myself included) is histing 2 conferences on various ict4dev issues. Both conferences are to be held in preparation for the Word Summit on the Information Society. There will be exciting speakers at both events, and I'm quite proud of the
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Glenn Fleishman notes a story over at NetworkWorldFusion: VoIP unwired Converged voice/data network projects can be tough, especially if you can't use any wires. That's what Mike Burns, a systems integrator, discovered when a client asked him to provide voice and data services to a
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Tactical Tech I'll hopefully be attending the Tactical Tech Summer Camp for NGO's, on the Croatian Island of Vis in early September. If all goes well, I'll be showing of some Open Source wireless solutions, and hopefully demoing some VoIP systems, including Voice over
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Someone forwarded me this article from the BBC Online: BBC NEWS | Technology | World's poor to get own search engine Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine designed for people with a slow net connection. Someone using the software would e-mail a query
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Yesterday, I wrote this item about an article on BBC's news site relating to WiFi hype in a developing world context. Simon Woodside commented on my post, noting that Open Spectrum is NOT deregulation as such, but mere RE-regulation. Simon is of course 100% correct. There is a
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UN pushes Wi-Fi to bridge digital divide Another brief story about the THE WIRELESS INTERNET OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS UN Conference.
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Is wi-fi good for developing nations? Bill Thompson offers an insightful look at WiFi for the developing world, based largely on the recent UN Conference on the subject. His main claim seems to be that WiFi, as with any other technology is in danger of being over-hyped by companies selling
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Rowing Upstream A book about the first steps of the Internet in Africa. Someone mentioned this book at a recent meeting, and I was very pleased to find it on-line in full (Or at least I assume it was the book he mentioned).
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BBC NEWS | Business | Ghana trumps mighty Microsoft A nice story on BBC News about Ghanaian software company S.O.F.T. and its founder Hermann. I actually had the pleasure of meeting Hermann while in Ghana, as S.O.F.T. is a GeekCorps partner company. And yes, it'