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Hi, I did some minor revamping here at multiplicity. Mostly concerned with changing the categories. I wanted to put more focus on Free Software (Open Source) and Open Spectrum wireless as my career gradually takes me further and further into that sphere. You can see the new category split in
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Russel Southwood, the editor of the excellent Balancing Act - Africa, newsletter has written an article challenging some of the assumptions that drive the ICT for development process. Balancing Act News Update - African internet developments This is easily the best article I have read on this subject in a
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This weeks newsletter from the ICT for Development section of the Development Gateway is shock full of Open Source news related to the developing world. (And I've added a few extra tidbits of my findings from other sources): Reuters reports on the, by now, well-known story that China
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Deeshaa : Directions for India's Development Atanu Dey asks, and attempts to answer this central question. What is thje role of ICT in an economy? I think his answer "It reduces transaction costs" is a very good approximation to the truth. It is worth remembering that in
The Web
Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview Clay Shirky delivers the most concise, accurate and true criticism of the so-called Semantic Web. It's a very weel-argued criticism, derailing the whole idea of a global ontology, and pointing out that a universal system based on Syllogisms will fail at
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Baku, Azerbaijan. I'm here in Baku, at the behest of George Soros, or at least his favourite organisation, the Open Society Institute, as a trainer for an e-riders project being started by the local Open Society Assistance Foundation. My participation has a few purposes. First of all, it&
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It's official. I'll be speaking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004. This is one of those conferences I've always wanted to go to, but for which the cost of crossing the atlantic was always prohibitive. Well, in February 2004 it'
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I just got the strangest letter today. In a very cordial tone, my friendly neighbourhood tax-authority has decided to inform me that my private expenses for the years 2001 and 2002 are unacceptable. You heard me. unacceptable. And that's their choice of words. According to them, after paying
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The Linux Magazine - Novermber 2003 issue (36), has a report on the Summer Source, Open SOurce for NGO's camp that I helped facilitate in September. The article was written by participant Yuwei Lin, and is a nice intro to those incredible events. Community: NGOs - Report on
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Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog : Antiquated, illiterate, destructive and indefensible Ethan, vey eloquently, puts into words something that has been on my mind for years now. The dire effect of western agricultural subsidies, on the fate of the developing world. I won't bore you with my rendering of
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According to this story on Wi-Fi Networking News, Less Networks is a Austin, Texas based community wireless effort,. It's a volunteer-based company that develops simple solutions that let café owners give away wireless internet access, while providing a bit of control over spammers, abuse etc., i.e. simple
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Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog Ethan Zuckerman, founder of GeekCorps, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, good friend, and one of the sharpest minds dealing with ict for development anywhere these days, has a new blog. Although he claims that posts will be few and far between,