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End Poverty at a Profiit. Friday, February 20, 2004. Open Letter to the World Bank e-forum on ICT for Rural Development. My, my. It has been a whole month since I posted here. My apologies.]. Let me first say that nobody should believe my version of ICT for sustainable development just because I say so. You need to learn about what is really going on, and what is really possible. We need to discuss results of real projects, not just theorize. On Monday 09 February 2004 10:17, Dennis Reinhardt wrote:.

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Thursday, August 26, 2004. On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:39 pm, James Neusom wrote to the BDPA Africa mailing list:. I see the term Wireless as one ubiquitous technology. Whether we're talking about Wi-Fi (802.xx), Blue tooth. Short range transmissions) and/or Cellular, in my. Minds eye they all have the same purpose; To transfer. Data from one device to another. Now depending on. What world you're living in (Business, Consumer, etc.). Posted by Edward @ 11:36. UN ICT Task Force.

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Wednesday, May 04, 2005. In Pakistan, women lead final push to eradicate polio. Posted by Edward @ 14:58. Comments: Post a Comment. Kofi Annan's IT Challenge to Silicon Valley. UN ICT Task Force. The Grameen Foundation's Village Computing Project. The Hewlett-Packard e-inclusion Project. My WSIS Online networking page. My Ryze networking page.

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Sunday, July 31, 2005. A State Department Report to the President: Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. A number of regulations govern the export from the United States of equipment, including computers, to Cuba, a state sponsor of terrorism. These export rules are intended to restrict the Cuban government's access to sensitive technology and to prevent the Cuban government from transferring this technology to other hostile states. We need to get a political movement togeth...

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Friday, June 17, 2005. African countries need at least 30 years to bridge the gap in. Access to the Internet and other information communication. Technologies between their citizens and those of the advanced. European and North American societies, an expert, Prof. Manny. With a 30 mile service radius, this minimum infrastructure could be deployed in any country that is serious about having it in two to three years from the time that WiMax is established in the market. We begin w...

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Friday, May 14, 2004. A week and a half after I wrote about Linux localization projects around the world (this blog, March 6) Microsoft announced. Its own plan to let governments localize Windows for it. Microsoft did not do this in response to my article, obviously, but the facts I wrote about are well known to Microsoft. The self-congratulatory press release makes no mention of the competitive threat from Linux, or indeed anything whatever about Linux. Before today's announcem...

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Friday, October 31, 2003. Is a LiveCD running GNOME 2.4 localized to Bengali. The ISO can be downloaded. This is a Beta release. Don't expect everything to work quite right, or at all, and back up your hard drive before you try it out. Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and northeast India. It has its own alphabet. Posted by Edward @ 12:18. Tuesday, October 28, 2003. Won election to the U. S. Senate in 1948 by having 200 extra ballots mysteriously turn up several days after...At an...

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Friday, September 26, 2003. The Value of Free Software. Microsoft frequently gives away software for education in $20-30 million dollar lots, and sometimes as much as $100 million. What will it take to bring developing countries across the Digital Divide? Well, if you want to go the whole way, you need to provide a computer and software for each of four billion poor people. Why one per person, and not, say, one per family, or even less? What if you do it with Linux? The return o...

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Tuesday, February 15, 2005. Translations of Federalist Papers headed to Iraqi law students. LWOB), the international nonprofit organization based in Hartford. Captain Cursedean had learned about LWOB three years ago and first made contact with Christina Storm, the founder and Director of Lawyers Without Borders, after his return to Connecticut from Kosovo. From Iraq, Capt. Curseaden emailed her for help. She immediately put LWOB's network into action. Posted by Edward @ 15:17.

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End Poverty at a Profiit. Sunday, April 24, 2005. Are Cheap Computers the Answer? Steve Cisler asks this quesion and gives his own answer. Steve's observations make it clear that if so, you asked the wrong question. Here is my take. Computers can be part of a solution to poverty, but only if they are designed to meet the specific, stringent requirements of the poor, and only if they are combined with the other elements of a solution. Lack of an electric grid. Lack of a phone system. The microbanks have n...