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The WiFi Opportunity for Developing Nations W2i: THE WIRELESS INTERNET INSTITUTE and the UN ICT Taskforce is holding a conference in New York about WiFi and it's applications in the Developing world. It's on the 26th of June. I'm not sure I'll
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The Berkman Center on-line course on Development and the Internet has started. Some interesting material in the first round on Internet Architecture, although, as a long-time Internet professional, and someone who's had the distinct pleasure of working hands-on with IT in the developing world, there was little tio
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The newest issue of the Balancing Act Africa newletter arrived yesterday. As usual Russel Southwood fills the issue (151) with astute analysis, news and updates on telecoms in Africa. But in this issue the cover story is entitled Broadband Wireless Access - Could it Give Incumbent Telcos a Run for
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Welcome to Development and the Internet It looks as if, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard Law School is giving a free, 5-week on-line course in Internet and Development. While I don't know how the teaching, reading and discussions will be, I do know most of
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After a number of requests (well actually two), I've thrown together a quick translation of the article on Ghana Telecom in which I am heavily quoted. I posted this shameless plug yesterday. And got these comments: Tomas I am going have to learn danish if I want to
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Danish tech-weekly ComOn, has latched onto the story of Ghana Telecoms woes and their recent shut-down of all ISP's in the country. And I'm heavily quoted in their online article. (in danish). Since ComOn provides tech-news for a number of other sites, the article has also
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According to this NYT article Hewlett-Packard is involved in a projec to standardize and add efficiency to micro-finance institutions in the worlds poorest nations. Microfinance is one of those development efforts that everyone seems to agree, are really important, effective and actually work (which is not the case for most
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bridges.org - case studies and bridge builders One of my favourite on-line references on ict 4 development (bridges.org, has a case study on one of my favourite ict ngo's, GeekCorps. The bridges.org IICD Case Study Series on ICT-Enabled Development sets out to illustrate how information
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so i've added part of my galeon bookmark file to the information available on this website. More precisely, those categories on this website for which I have a lot of bookmarks, have gotten a link to those bookmarks in html format. For now that includes the categories ICT
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The long-list of projects using WiFi to deliver Internet Access in the developing world, just keeps getting longer. So even if we haven't been successful in funding our various project ideas in this direction, here is yet more proof that there is nothing wrong with our vision: IDRC
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Dave Weinbergers write-up of Lawrence Lessigs Sunday Afternoon speach at SXSW: Joho the Blog: SXSW Sunday Afternoon: Lessig Tomorrow, Creative Commons will introduce new "versioning" llicenses, including a sampling license, an education license, and a developing nations license that allows poorer countries to build on what other, more
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Pedal-powered PC zapped -- villagers wait to go wireless A power surge at 3 a.m. Tuesday in the team's makeshift lab in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, did in the drives that were being used to program the little Jhai Computer. It trashed an entire week's