In a message dated 7/6/05 8:11:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Amos/Andy: There is a new university being planned in Yola, Nigeria based on American rather than English educational principles. More properly, it is about to enroll its first class this coming fall. The senior academic there is Jim Garofalo, a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria - from 1962 - 1964. One of its specialties appears to be technology. How might a university, in your opinion, best advance public technology objectives in Yola, East Nigeria, Nigeria and West Africa? It may be in the position to advance those interests. Don Samuelson Peace Corps Volunteer - Nigeria 1962 - 1964 > Absolutely fantastic. I was going to send you an email, and to Ethan > too. Whatever you do, the Technology Assessment Project is hijacking you > on Saturday, 23 July 2004 and part of Sunday July 24. We aim at > encamping the highest calibre IT crowd in Ghana to discuss new > developments in IT policy - the government has issued a raft of > mould-setting e-laws, the World Bank has announced a 40 million dollar > e-Ghana project, and, the World Bank, again, has issued a new sector > strategy for ICT in Ghana. For those of you not familiar with Developing > Countgries like Ghana, the World is almost our new imperial centre, it > provides the lead for many important policy developments. It has been > tardy in ICT and telephony issues in Ghana, but it is coming into it big > time. Its private sector affiliate, the International Finance > Cooperation has recently given a mobile phone company in Ghana a loan of > $40 million dollars. For those of you in Ghana not familiar with Andy, > he is the inventor of mobcasting, an extension of podcasting. He > recently discovered that he is a relative of our own Ethan of geekcorps > and Legon Dondology fame. > > amos > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
