Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] RFI: IT Training Curriculum for Rural Community Local Government

2005-05-18 Thread Parker Rossman
officials had to take a certification course. (And maybe many of them would if the course was available...even on a CD that could be listened to on a music-CD player or radio, Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world, how to use the Internet to provide

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Indonesia ICT and Decentralization Experience

2005-05-13 Thread Parker Rossman
hone to connect to the Internet for business, e-governance, education and health care. 3. As these mature they can be manufactured in a poor developing country at a much more affordable price than would otherwise be possible. It is time now to prepare for what is going to be possible in a few yea

Re: [GKD] E-Governance Is Not Getting The Job Done

2005-03-03 Thread Parker Rossman
erent countries) could be a powerful parallel structure to the UN, both counterbalancing it and supporting the UN to do good things that 'big organizations' might not want. Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world, how to use the Internet to provide

Re: [GKD] The $100 Computer

2005-02-10 Thread Parker Rossman
I hope the major computer companies will in time consent for it to be manufactured in the developing world. I suppose Negroponte knows about developments in India, and hopes that mass production can make it cheaper. Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world

Re: [GKD] RFI: Satellite Communications with Western China?

2004-03-19 Thread Parker Rossman
Western China? I would start by using Google to look up Takeshi Utsumi and Joseph Pelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Also my web page where I have a draft of a 3-volume book on how to use the Internet to take health care and education to everyone in the world. . Also Utsumi's web page http://friends-par

[GKD] Alternatives to the Simputer

2002-01-29 Thread Parker Rossman
On the Simputer, Niel Geersenfeld at Educause reported the development in India of a much cheaper and better computer. Go to and click on 2001 proceedings and then on his speech topic "Universities that Think" to see his videostreamed message...which is a film of kids in India. I'd like to hear

[GKD] Re: International fund for digital divide?

2001-02-22 Thread G Parker Rossman
The GLOSAS project has people from UNESCO, UN, etc working to pursue such a fund - a global trust fund - and I think Japan has already promised billions if other countries will match it. Parker Rossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 Lemmon Drive author, EMERGING WORLDWIDE ELECTRONIC