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CSR - Altruism or Business Necessity? Digital Divide issues are becoming ore and more mainstream. This week, Nokia's on-line magazine, The Feature has a special on what they call Corporate Social Responsibility. I'm not sure wether to consider that a contradiction in terms, but i'
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The Digital Divide Network: Over 200 rural villages in India's Maharashtra state have formed a wireless Internet cooperative, establishing 50 wi-fi "hotspots" in their communities. The co-op has managed to raise more than $400,000 (RS20 million) to expand the reach of wireless Internet locally. Maharashtra
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Mature villager joins digital era I like anecdotal stories about succesful IT deployments in the developing world. I like them partially because to a certain degree they vindicate my interest in deploying Internet and Communication technologies in the developing world. And interestingly enough most of the succesful
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Developing Countries Gain from Free/Open-Source Software LinuxJournal has an interesting article on-line, refering to a recent Finish study about the impact of free (as in free speech) software in the developing world. Free and open-source software are not only "a useful and significant tool for the developing countries&
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www.oreilly.com -- interview with Ethan Zuckerman O'Reilly, favourite publisher of geeks everywhere has an interview with my friend, some-time mentor, and often inspiration Ethan. He founded GeekCorps, and has incredibly managed to transport a geek ethic and fascination to a sector which is hardly known for
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Volume 13 of The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, focuses on software exporting economies, i.e. software development outsourcing. It looks like interesting contributions on a diversity of subjects, including analysis of software exporting indistries in places like Iran, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ukraine. Also a few
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Economist.com | Articles by Subject | India The Economist has a brief article about the eSeva project in Andhra Pradesh, India. The potential of e-government projects in reducing corruption and increasing transparency is obvious to most. And the debate over priorities not withstanding, eSeva is an interesting implementation of this through
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Via the DevelopmentGateway, this is a ITU collection of Free Statistics on the state of Telecom around the world. ICT - Free Statistics Home Page
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WiFi Delivers For Developing Countries From austrralia.internet.com, comes this article about MIT Media Lab India's DakNet project. A simple store-and-forward WiFi system, using a government bus as a central linkage. The bus contains a simplem WiFi installation and server, and when in range of one of
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Computers to Africa scheme criticised BBC News reports on a recent report from the The UK Centre of International Education, criticising Western Companies efforts to ship 2nd hand computers to Africa. It has been a very very costly mistake," Bildad Kagai from the Open Source Foundation
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Carnegie Endowment - Open Networks Closed Regimes I recently saw this book mentioned on blog.org, and added it to my amazon.co.uk shopping basket. I wish it wouldn't cost me 70 quid for shipping 3 items to Denmark. In the past few days the book has
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First Mile Workshop The Swedish International Cooperation Agency and the UN ICT Task Force as having an International Workshop on Open Access issues in Kista, Stockholm on June 5th - 6th 2003. It looks interesting enough, and there is a nice place to register on the website, but apparently that