Timbuktu Chronicles is "A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship,technology,practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.".....Emeka Okafor
Recent Items of Interest
Wireless Internet: Africa
"...The wireless Internet has the potential to bridge the digital divide by providing low-cost broadband Internet connectivity to underserved areas and municipalities. Leapfrogging wireless technologies may be deployed rapidly to help foster economic development and workforce productivity and to enable delivery of social-service applications in the areas of e-health, e-education, and e-government. Its deployment can become a critical factor in improving productivity and security and in bringing Internet-based services and connectivity to whole new segments of underserved populations at a fraction of the cost of wired technologies..."[Timbuktu Chronicles]
Posted by tigoe at July 9, 2004 04:55 AM