------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:10:05 +0500 Send reply to: "African Network of IT Experts and Professionals (ANITEP) List" <[log in to unmask]> From: Irfan Khan <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Can technology ease Africa’s woes? To: [log in to unmask] Dawn, 20 Nov 2005 Can technology ease Africa's woes? By Rebecca Harrison DIPICHI (South Africa): It is hard to believe that 19 shiny flat screen computers can cure the ills of this tiny community in South Africa's arid north where people battle every day against poverty, Aids, illiteracy and hunger. Yet US computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and South African President Thabo Mbeki are promoting Dipichi's smart new IT lab as a blueprint for how technology can trigger growth and tackle poverty across the world's poorest continent. Bridging the so-called digital divide in Africa became a popular mantra among aid workers and government officials during the tech boom that started in the late 1990s but it fell from favour as countless ill-conceived rural IT centres went unused. Sceptics asked what use a computer was when people were hungry, dying of Aids and too poor to send their kids to school? <...> read complete story at http://dawn.com/2005/11/20/int9.htm ------- End of forwarded message ------- ******************************************************* http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara http://www.gambia.dk **"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible"*** ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤