The Wireless Roadshow is obviously my main focus this year, and I’ve spent a large part of whatever time I have been able to work, trying to get the ball rolling on the preparation for this project. Recently I went to Istanbul to address the Open Society Institute‘s Information Program on the projet. OSI is [...]

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So I did my talk yesterday at ETech. I think it went pretty well, although perhaps I should have focused a little more on the tech side of things. Turn-out was ok, considering that I was competing directly with Danny NTK O’Brien, talking about alpha-geeks and their habits. He’s more or less the stand-up comedian [...]

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I’m in a talk now by Priya Prakesh on Project Miljul, which was a 4 week research project to find out how workers in india use their mobile phones. In fact it’s a talk on user centric design, with the unique perspective of indian culture as a backdrop. nothing revolutionary, but i like every sneaking [...]

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I’ve been spending quite some time thinking about the power of the grassroots in bringing ICT to the developing world. I am generally extremely wary of the type of development projects that consist of giving a (let’s say danish) firm a few million dollars to buy (let’s postualte danish) technology, and fly a few score [...]

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Muniwireless: Mesh networks help developing areas Archives This story contains a lot of favourites for me. It comes from MuniWireless.com, which is one of my favourite sites for news on public and community networking. It talks about Mesh Wireless which is definitely amongst my flavours of the month, hwen it comes to favourite technologies, and [...]

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I got back from Geneva on saturday, after having spent 4 days at the WSIS (Word Sunmmit on the Information Society) there. Just to clear that up, I wasn’t actually at the main WSIS event (at least until the last day), but instead was next-door at the ICT4D platform, a sort of ICT for development [...]

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Rickshaws connect India’s poor Earlier this year, we outfitted a bicycle cab with wireless internet via wifi, as part of the Copenhagen Interpolation conference. It seems this idea is out there in the real world now, According to BBC news. Shyam Telecom which operates in the Indian state of Rajasthan, [...]

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So, I finally got confirmation that I will, after all, be going to Geneva next week for the World Summit. I’ll be part of a Danish presence there under the auspices of the danish ministry of foreign affairs, presenting our various businesses, non-profits, and projects. Including, but not limited to:

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Russel Southwood, the editor of the excellent Balancing Act – Africa, newsletter has written an article challenging some of the assumptions that drive the ICT for development process. Balancing Act News Update – African internet developments This is easily the best article I have read on this subject in a long time. It’s concise, critical [...]

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Deeshaa : Directions for India’s Development Atanu Dey asks, and attempts to answer this central question. What is thje role of ICT in an economy? I think his answer “It reduces transaction costs” is a very good approximation to the truth. It is worth remembering that in fact, in most cases, this is exactrly what [...]

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