Ken Novak: Digital DevelopmentCommunications and info tech in developing countries, especially wireless broadband and high-value applications(Untitled)- September 30, 2003 Buddhist Economics by E. F. Schumacher: Classic 1966 essay, later collected into the 1973 "Small is Beautiful."http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/29.html#a1267 (Untitled)- September 27, 2003 WorldWater Inaugurates Solar Municipal Water System in Cebu, Philippines: "WorldWater the Municipality of Ronda, Cebu, Philippines, will inaugurate the world's first solar powered, prepaid municipal water distribution system on September 27 in Ronda. Former Philippines President Fidel V. Ramos will be the keynote speaker. Ronda is located on the southwest coast of Cebu, an island in the middle group of the Philippine archipelago. For the first time, a municipal water distribution system..http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/26.html#a1256 (Untitled)- September 27, 2003 No electricity Use a wind-up phone charger: "Japan's Fuso Rikaseihin Co. Ltd, which makes the charger. Priced at $42, the hand-held generator is quite noisy and not cheap, although it comes with a built-in flashlight. It can be used with phones from Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT Docomo. " 5 minutes of winding gives 20 mins of talk time. Motorola came out with its own winder earlier this year.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/26.html#a1255 (Untitled)- September 16, 2003 Opening up the BBC archive: "Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation's programme archives. Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet. The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to everyone, as long as they were not intending to use the material for commercial purposes, Mr Dyke added. " More interpretation from a...http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/16.html#a1223 (Untitled)- September 16, 2003 Update on MIT Everyware (Sept 2003): "MIT announced to the world in April 2001 that it would be posting the content of some 2,000 classes on the Web.. MIT would make everything, from video lectures and class notes to tests and course outlines, available to any joker with a browser. .. here was the pinnacle of technology and science education ready to give it away. Not the degrees, which now cost about $41,000 a year, but the content. No registration required. .. The idea quickly attracted..http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/16.html#a1222 (Untitled)- September 16, 2003 Invention for Sustainable Development: "The Lemelson Foundation Invention for Sustainable Development Program fosters and unleashes human creativity and invention to meet basic human needs and build sustainable livelihoods for the world's poor people. " Advisory board members include Ashok Gadgil.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/15.html#a1221 (Untitled)- September 8, 2003 Solar Energy ICT Project in Nigeria: "The Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Turner Isoun, has said that the federal government has developed solar energy pilot project in Bayelsa State. The pilot solar energy project he said was developed to supplement the unsteady power supply to improve performance of Information Communication Technology (ICT)development in Nigeria. The move, the minister said, was the beginning of vigorous efforts channelled towards strengthening.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/08.html#a1195 (Untitled)- September 5, 2003 A 'Tale of Two Cities': Bridging the Digital Divide: Speech in India by president and CEO of Philips promotes Bottom of the Pyramid markets: "Let us see how widening access to technology for these people &150; by far the largest &147;new growth market&148; in human history &150; will in turn affect developed markets and perhaps solve some of the problems we face there. .. A good example is the &147;Health Truck&148; developed by Philips and now in use in Argentina. In order to.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/05.html#a1188 (Untitled)- September 2, 2003 Blogging for Development: Article on World Bank Development Gateway reviewing blogs and ICT for development. The author, John Daly, has a number of articles on the Gateway, plus a blog of his own.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/09/02.html#a1178 |