Aquashed Online developed by UNEP-IETC is a great simulation, a
sophisticated decision support tool:
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http://www.unep.or.jp/
http://www.emlearning.net/Tools/aquashed/
I would also be interested in similar simulations!
Andre
Dear GKD Members,
I have just joined this group and this discussion is of particular
interest to me and has been very illuminating. However, I'm not sure
whether I am relieved or slightly disheartened to find that I am not
alone in grappling with what the impacts of ICTs on SMMEs actually are
or m
Dear Don,
Though I agree with most of what you wrote -i.e. that there are
thousands and thousands of micro-initiatives, where people do put the
job or their business on the line with ICT local initiatives, which go
unperceived- I'm afraid that you are too optimistic with respect to the
mega-coop o
Tom Abeles' extended comment on Sam Lanfranco's analysis of the lack of
accountability in many ICT- pegged "development projects", suggests the
need for simulation games whereby players are exposed to the many
variables impinging on any complex social and cultural reality when tech
innovations are
Don Richardson asked that we add examples to those he enumerated,
regarding ICT initiatives that fail to attract attention because no
donor is involved. Here is one:
- the effect of moble phones in unconnected rural remote areas. These
are actually fall outs from major market centres like big town
Sam Lanfranco's eloquent analysis, coupled with this repost of the Kenny
paper (abridged from 'Info', below) should give the entire ICT for
development community pause for reflection, particularly those agencies
and organizations which have committed funding in the belief that ICT's
could be the "m
Thanks to Sam Lanfranco for a refreshing perspective. I agree with much of
what Sam says regarding the reasons for the ICT & poverty reduction
research/evidence vacuum.
I would like to add an additional point, and draw on the insights of Tom
Wolfe on the social context of self promotion. In lookin
In response to Sam Lanfranco's response to Cornelio Hopmann:
Wow!
Everything you say "feels true"
It explains my feelings and experience on behalf of OOCD 2000+ (Oke-Ogun
Community Development 2000Plus) since I responded to the community
request that I would be their bridge across the digital div
In response to Sam Lanfranco's contribution about ICT for poverty
reduction, I would like to confirm his observation that too little funds
are available for thorough research into evidence building around ICT
for poverty reduction.
One exception at least I know of is British DFID that does allocat
Sam,
Though I find your critique of 'ICT for Development' type initiatives
important, especially for 'development' organizations to review their
strategies on ICTs, I think a distinction should be made between these
initiatives and the uptake of technologies happening without
intervention of devel
Vickram, my organisation is in the process of helping the people of the
Upper East Region Ghana, in the conflict prone district of Bawku East to
use radio to break barriers to access to information. The people from a
preliminiary baseline survey overwhelmly choose the path of radio as a
means of ac
In response to Cornelio Hopmann's query about hard evidence on a
"measurable and scaleable impact of ICT on Poverty Reduction, sustained
by hard evidence" I would like to add a slightly different perspective
to that offered by by Michael Gurstein in his February 12th posting. I
will use the phrase
I write in response to Cornelio Hopmann, quoted below.
If anyone does know of a good example of the kind of software he
suggests, please let me know about it too. It could be the kind of thing
that would help us to work effectively, regarding the proposed
Biodesign/Sunshine Solutions/CAWD/OOCD/Fan
Dear Michael,
I am well aware of the claimed "global" impact of ICT on overall
capital-productivity, i.e. that improved supply- and distribution
chain-management reduced the amount of capital bound to goods in store,
that improved decision making reduced time-to-market, that standardizing
procedur
Fascinating.
At 12:26 PM + 12/02/2004, Pamela McLean wrote:
> - Early 2002 CAWD UK (me - Pamela McLean) came across Biodesign (Graham
> Knight) on the internet. http://www.biodesign.org.uk
We (The microPower Initiative, in India) are also in touch with Graham
(through the Net) and have adopt
Cornelio,
One way to expand this dialog might be to consider ICT in the context of
cost reduction, or increased affordability, not just revenue generation.
For many large organizations cost reduction is a principal benefit of
ICT. It's a reasonable hypothesis that the declining cost of computing
a
This email has two parts - 1 - Request for information, 2 - Giving some
information
# 1 - Request for information
Like Cornelio I too would like to know about things that work
(especially Micro and Small) so that we can share these ideas with
people in Oke-Ogun (Nigeria). CAWD/OOCD did a needs an
Hi Cornelio,
Your request is most reasonable, given the amount of money that has been
thrown at, and the potentials attributed to ICT's. A recent study of
telecenteres in Latin America has shown that even these are
unsustainable, and non-competitive with the for-profit cyber cafe's in
the same com
Cornelio,
Let me attempt a brief reply and I expect there are others on this list
who know very much more about this than I do and I look forward to being
corrected.
If I understand your question correctly it is a direct parallel to
questions concerning the impact of investment in IT in Developed
Dear GKD Members,
In the same line of questions I raised earlier about measurable and
scaleable impact of ICT on Poverty Reduction, sustained by hard evidence
-best at before-after or control-group comparison-, I would like to ask
for more specific evidence of ICT-impact on the competiveness (and
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