Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-26 Thread Ken DiPietro
Dear GKD Members, First of all, I would like to say thank you for the warm welcome you all have so graciously shown me. I thought I would share a bit of a conversation I had with someone today. I edited the content for clarity's sake. I hope you find this useful. > I would add the difficult

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Is Profitability Essential for Sustainability?

2004-11-26 Thread Shahid Uddin Akbar
Dear Colleagues, Sustainabiliy is a very critical issue for any ICT for Development project with the focus on rural areas. Still we didn't find any single project which can claim itself as Sustainable in terms of being financially viable and serving the local rural communities anywhere in the worl

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Abeles
One of the most interesting turn of events is happening in the United States with regards to access to broadband. Cities and towns, ranging from a major center, such as San Francisco to a small rural town in Minnesota are providing or planning to provide area wide broadband to the entire community

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Hybrid Profit and Non-Profit Business Models

2004-11-26 Thread Martha Davies
Dear Colleagues, We are a Latino group working for the Betterment of Latino Communities in South America and in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. Here is some information about us: Electronic Communication and Information Exchange (ECIE), a non-profit that is actually a spinoff from Quipu

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-26 Thread Kiran Menon
Dear GKD Members, This is in response to Graham Knight's suggestion of using the radio as an effective medium of IT transfer to the lesser privileged. We (The Footprint) are presently working with a captive IT services unit of one the biggest electronic goods manufacturers in the world. I have bee