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UN Recommends WiFi for Poor Countries

Posted by michael on from the it-takes-a-village dept.

amerinese writes "UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is now advocating that third-world countries be given funds to implement WiFi technology and 'leapfrog into the future.'"

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  1. google versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

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  2. Re:yeah, but by handybundler · · Score: 0, Informative

    saddam gassed his own people, for pete's sake!

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  3. Re:He's right on by stubear · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually it is you who is naive. I've been to Africa and many of the tribes there are still techncically nomadic though many of them merely kill the land around their village by over-grazing then move 100 yards away to rebuild their village once more. It was not until recently that a few of them began supplementing their diet of meat, milk and blood with a very limited selection of squash and a couple other vegetables. THey still don't have very good agricultural skills and it's not getting any better. The failure stems from their inability to drop the cultural link to being nomadic and learn to settle and become an agricultural society.

  4. Cell Site Size -- Exactly: AlohaNet NOT 802.11 by Multics · · Score: 2, Informative
    What he means is ubiquous wireless data (and hence phone). 802.11 is not the way to do that. The cell sites are too small.

    AlohaNet and most of the cellular networks are the future of the third world (and even that of small town America). The cell sites are variable size and shape and can be scaled to meet the current AND FUTURE need just as they are in the first world.

    Only the richest places on the planet can even consider copper to the home or small business better yet fiber.

    -- Multics

  5. they are about to become poorer by zogger · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of this food aid being exported there is in the form of propietary grain crops -GM mostly-that very poor farmers will try to plant, and have crop failures then. They will be locked into to the globalist agrimonopolists cycle, and won't be able to save seed year to year, instead being forced to purchase seed, and already they are on subsistance level incomes, having to pay for seed will doom them to perpetual serfdom fpr the most part, even worse than it is now. It's the exact reason the forward-thinkers in those nations are trying to refuse "food" aid even when they desperately need it, they know it's a temporary fix, just like drugs, ie "the first hit is free". There's wheels inside of agendas with *free* "aid".