For the past 4 years; in fact ever since that fateful day about 5 years ago when I said yes to travel to ghana, working as a volunteer for Africa Express , and genreally having a blast. It was my baptism into the fascinating world that has occupied the last 4 years of my life. [...]

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Yet another of the many ruaral wireless projects that are springing up around the world. Wireless Ghana – Broadband for the West African village. Having been an active advocate and tech trainer on this type of project for about 3 years, it warms my heart whenever i see a project like this. * It proves [...]

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Open-source Wi-Fi links remote communities – ZDNet UK News ZDNet UK has an article about our ongoing Wireless Roadshow. They interviewed our colleague Simon Crab, who is the UK branch of our gig, and heads up Informal, the UK non-profit that we are doing the Roadshow with. It’s quite a nice little piece, and will [...]

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One of my favourite blogs dealing with ICTs in development, Deeshaa, mentions a recent keynote by prof Ken Keniston of MIT. He laid out 5 important points when dealing with ICTs for development. They may be obvious to many, but they are valid and important to remember, nevertheless: Prof Ken Keniston of MIT who gave [...]

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Wizard of OS: Globalisierung II. This panel is just getting started, with Thorsten Schilling moderating. Thorsten just had a standard intro, not too interesting, definitely not provocative. My uncoordinated notes will be here

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The magazine that styles itself “The First monthly magazine on ict4d” has a new issue on the streets, and this one is all about Wireless Communications in the developing world. And with entries from some of the top people in this arena, it’s an issue well worth checking out: i4donline: i4donline: April 2004 issue: Wireless [...]

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For those of you who understand my father-tongue (danish), there is now a streaming (realplayer) version of my recent presentation at LinuxForum 2004 here in Copenhagen. I think it’s one of the best presentations I have given in quite some time, which is fairly surprising to me. I was ill prepared, OpenOffice was acting up, [...]

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So it’s the final day of AfricaSource. One of the professionally most exciting events I have attended in the past 18 months is coming to a close. All we have to do, as we wrap up, is burn about 60 CD’s with digital photos from a number of participants. It’s 21:00 in Okahandja, Namibia at [...]

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This past weekend we had the good fortune to be involved in the 2004 LinuxForum here in Copenhagen. Since we participated last year with the crazy CopenhagenConnectedCycle, they had kindly asked us if we had something to participate with again. Did we ever We actually ended up doing a pretty informal World Record attempt for [...]

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