philip pocock on Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:21:49 +0100 (CET) |
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its been 6 years since i worked with internet media in uganda - http://www.aporee.org/equator at the time 1997 it took us only 10 minutes for an 18-year-old net-head in kampala to set us up with an account and a pretty speedy 28kb connection with few drops. in germany at that time you had to wait weeks to get an account sometimes. did you meet charles musisi? he was having students type the'new vision' national news onto the net then to pay for a hut a few pcs and some oreilly linux textbooks. in 1997 there was in my view more understanding intrinsic understanding of net culture in uganda among the students i met than among students i worked with in germany! and its not a surprise for many reasons. if you havent contacted charles musis i would recommend it. i met him through gopher in 1995 when he was canvasing worldwide universities for 2400 baud modems to be donated to uganda. he is a pioneer net person who made our site possible. viva uganda! Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Steve Cisler <cisler@pobox.com> > Datum: Wed, 12. Feb. 2003 14:35:05 Europe/Berlin > An: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net > Betreff: <nettime> High tech trash > Antwort an: Steve Cisler <cisler@pobox.com> > > On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:48 AM, Announcer wrote: > >> From: Ryan Griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> >> Subject: high tech trash and "developing nations" >> >> http://cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/environ/hitech_trash/ >> a story from last October by the CBC on the >> transplantation of Computer waste to "poor" countries, >> and the environmental/human effects. > > I just returned from three weeks in Uganda where I was assessing a high > tech project involving nicely outfitted computer labs with new gear, > wireless Internet connection, etc. in teacher training colleges around <...> philip pocock gabelsbergerstr. 1 d-76135 karlsruhe germany mobile/sms +49 1707 369 870 tel +49 721 845 715 fax +49 721 830 2714 the more we share, the more we have. - l.nimoy # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net