[LINK] $100 laptop could sell to public

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Wed Jan 17 11:16:37 AEDT 2007


Danny Yee wrote:
<snip>
> Development IT projects are not, in most cases, an alternative to
> public health ones, but an extra.  And access to information is
> critical both for health (how many village clinics in Africa have
> access to decent medical reference works?), agriculture (information
> about market prices as well as techniques and weather forecasts),
> politics (getting input into metropolitan decision making and claiming
> rights), and education (obviously).
<snip>
Danny,

I don't think they need a computer or the Internet, in Iraq,
to tell them that lack  of clean water and sewarage and
garbage everywhere because of the destruction of
infrastructure is a health problem.

though maybe the americans do.

marghanita
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