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Riptari refers to an article by Roberto Verzola, with a comparison of the cost benefit of community radio vs. internet access for the poor. While in general the article is spot-on when analysing the cost: Low-power radio: This technology is definitely affordable to low-income sectors (those earning US$5/day
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FITU is a danish forum for IT in development, started mid-last year by member of Parliament Lone Dybkjær, Founder of Metrocomia, David Madié, and Mathilde and Jeppe Rude. The Forum aims to bring together the public, private and civic sectors working on ICT issues in development. Both sebastian and I
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I got a crazy idea today. As some of you know I've sent in an application to go get my master's at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on wireless networks in the developing world. Part of that is that I know I want to work with
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Just a typical sunday... i'm too far into the dolldrums to do anything useful. i spent a few hours trying to get some work done, and there's plenty more where that came from, but today apparenmtly isn't the day. so what do i do?
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via riptari filter, I found a few more related blogs. ZeroCostComputing seems to mostly deal with Open SOurce both in and out of developing nations. NGO Knowledge Map is more about knowledge management and knowledge sharing in ngo's
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I've joined Affero as a volunteer. In their own words Affero: Also, the system doesn't come bundled with any particular forum or community platform, so any independent community host can integrate the services and individuals can share reputation across various communities. In other words, the idea
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A few days ago, I commented on an article by Dr. Kenny in Foreign Policy. David Brake @ Blog.org adds his comments [via riptari] Most importantly, while subsidising universal access may be excessive at this stage in the development of the Internet, that doesn't mean that as costs
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Peter Thomas suggests applying to attend the world summit on the information society, even though it's highly unlikely that an inexperienced, and small ngo like ours will get a place. Probably more likely to happen through fitu. On the other hand, I might as well. So I will.
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riptari filter: Bridging the Financial Divide Peter Thomas, points out that the main problem is not a Digital Divide, but rather a financial divide. Or more precisely that the Digital Divide is merely the results of a financial divide, the point being that even in real terms internet access charges
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The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
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riptari filter again ;-) "the digital efficacy continuum" as a replacement for the all too binary and simplistic "digital divide". I love it.... I think it's worthy of at least an e-mail signature, and maybe even a t-shirt? But what do you do to
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CNN.com - At 74, Internet cowboy spreads wireless - Jan. 26, 2003 Now here's what I call a good guy. Dave Hughes has done some pretty amazing stuff with wireless in various parts of the world. He's one of those guys that is right out