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Arabica Robusta

Global Voices Online » Harvard Forum: Are we satisfied with what we've got? - 0 views

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  • Berkman Center's Yochai Benkler wants us to clearly identify our goals as concerns ICT and development. Are we seeking income growth in relation to relative poverty? Use of ICT that enables a sense of self, of well-being in the world, knowledge creation?
  • He sees an intriguing tension between systems that favor openness and freedom through a decentralized systems versus the relatively rapid diffusion of devices that enable communications through more centralized networks. We can think of this as mobile versus internet systems, or carriers versus open wireless networks.
  • Alison Gillwald
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  • worries that, in developing ICT4D policies, we tend to assume a functional state capable of managing processes of innovation - what's missing in the literature is discussion of large-scale institutional failure providing massive bottlenecks and constraints. In South Africa, she worries about the rise of the state in terms of provisioning and operating communication services.
  • That's what we learned with the explosion of mobile telephony. We claim that mobile phone companies opened this market - that's totally false. The mobile networks were the innovation of poor people when they were enabled to use it the way they wanted to. Poor people spent much more income than we ever thought they would.
  • While he agrees that this consideration is “not crazy”, he suggests we not overfocus on this. “There are institutional failures all over the place - they're the main cause of stalled growth… If you're in a state that shuts down communication channels, there's something larger wrong.” (He admits that this sets up an intersting paradox, as China is growing incredibly quickly, but shows extremely high willingness to control these communication channels.)
  • Arabica Robusta on 19 Feb 10
     
    Excellent brief overview of discussion about where mobile and internet ICT are going and what the implications are for development.
Arabica Robusta

Uganda: Local Telecom Investor Secures Shs600 Billion Loan - 0 views

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  • Local telecommunications investor, Libyan African Investment Portfolio (Lap) Green, has signed a $300 million (about Shs600 billion) financing agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
  • Lap Green Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Abdulbaset Elazzab said the money would be spent in rejuvenating Lap Green operations in Uganda, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Niger and Togo.
  • Arabica Robusta on 19 Feb 10
     
    Lap Green (Lybia) gets financing from China for broad development of telecom in Africa.
Arabica Robusta

allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Seventh Telecom Firm Enters Market - 0 views

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  • Excellentcom (T) Limited yesterday signed a $180 million (Sh216 billion) contract with Huawei Technologies of China.
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