Dear GKD Members, A very interesting analysis has been raised. The two last e-mails from Allen Hammond and Cornelio Hopmann were very interesting and with a great amount of experience and knowledge.
Taking into account both points of view, for me it seems that as this type of business and win-win situation is yet in its origins, economic results are yet to be seen. The companies that are actually working and providing services and products to poor people are the ones who in the following years will give us the needed data to answer Cornelio's question (to prove in a quantifiable way the positive impact of "ICT for the Poor" projects). The proposal from the academic, business and poor peoples' view point seems interesting and worthy, so only action and time might provide us the best approach to this question. All the given examples are the ones that are making history (or not) within this new way of making business. Here, in Argentina, there are also some good and profitable examples going on (although not specificaly with ICT technology). Please see: <http://www.ceads.org.ar/casos/2003/casos2003pdf/Edenor-ElectricidadPrepagaE DF.pdf> - it is only available in Spanish. Kind regards, Ana Muro Instituto de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad Corporativa O'Higgins 3819 - (C1429BBU) Buenos Aires, Argentina. 54-11-4702-0675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.instituto.ws/iesc ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by USAID's dot-ORG Cooperative Agreement with AED, in partnership with World Resources Institute's Digital Dividend Project, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org and http://www.digitaldividend.org provide more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html>
