dear friends, i thought many of you may find this very readable paper quite interesting. It's easy to get dazzled by the God of ICT, (witness the current mania over the Kochi Smart City project!) and forget some elementary basics like healthcare, schooling, nutrition, etc.
Geography matters: Mapping human development and digital access by Stephanie A. Birdsall and William F. Birdsall First Monday, volume 10, number 10 (October 2005), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/birdsall/index.html Abstract: Policy circles have long made the assumption that information and communications technologies promote human development. In mapping the Human Development Index (HDI) against the Digital Access Index (DAI) we explore the statistical and spatial relationship between human development and digital access. The results suggest information and communications technologies may not play as strong a role in promoting human development as is usually asserted and that public policies might need to be centered more on human rather than digital capital. Anivar Aravind Co-ordinator FSF India < http://www.gnu.org.in > -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.
