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The riptari filter asks: Where are the ICT Web Logs? I feel obliged to answer. Have a look at GeekHalla which is the unofficial site of for GeekCorps volunteers. The Rwanda section has the diary of David Smith, who was recently there for 6 weeks working on a programming gig,
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Wow, these last days, there's been quite some trackback activity between this blog, and Peter Thomas' riptari filter. i'm tying to absorb his pov as fast as possible. he just commented on a recent post of mine. Commenting on this article at ICT Update: The
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FAQ on ICT for development I've put up a first version of my FAQ on ICT for development. It focuses on the obvious, namely what were doing at wire.less.dk, but also has some general sections on ICT for development. For now it's over at
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Telecoms and Wireless in Afghanistan: One Year Later is a nice brief report on the state of telecommunications infrastructure in Afghanistan. It features 2 interesting stories about the development in the past year, and about a possible path to follow in the future. Specifically the article entitled, "Telecommunications in
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riptari filter: Facing Kenny's Figure What we really ought to be doing, all of us who are taking an interest in the internet's expansion, is not only to follow Mr. Kelly's example by continuing to openly, frequently criticize the call for universal access, but
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I'm working on an FAQ for ICT in development issues. Mostly trying to offset some of the frequent questions about the suitability of wireless, but also more generally about ICTs for development. Nothing spectacularly revolutionary, but just an atempt at clarifying my position on some important questions, such
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This entry over at the Riptari Filter: Riptari Filter: The Search for life on Mars Makes some interesting points, comparing "bridging the digital divide" with "Searching for life on Mars". Ethan made similar points in friday's lecture at Harvard. Namely that the goal of
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so there's all these people here in cambridge interested in ICT's for development. and each has his/her own perspective. it's not so much that they disagree, but more that they seem to focus on different areas of the problem. Geoffrey is very much
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Yesterday was one of the better days of my time here in Boston. I've been spending a bit of time at the MIT Media Lab, as well as visiting Geoffrey Kirkman at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It's been interesting, but also hard to
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I'm off to Boston on wednesday. about 12 days in the winter of new england. off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of GeekCorps. While I'm there, I'm also going to Boston to have a look at MIT, see if it's
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thanks go out to ambiguous.org for this little piece on why it makes sense to give internet to the poor. even if bill gates seems to think that we should give them medicine and food first. don't get me wrong, medicine and food are important, but information
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Oblomovka has an article about our colleagues at the Jhai Foundation, who are working hard to develop the Jhai PC. It's fairly similar in concept to our idea for an autonokit. They seem to be mkore focused on a particular project in Laos, which is a good thing,