Comments on: Digital divide http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2007/11/26/digital-divide/ concept to publication Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:59:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DMS http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2007/11/26/digital-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-26360 DMS Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:05:43 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2007/11/26/digital-divide/#comment-26360 They can leapfrog. Omit some paths like fixed lines for telephones and power transmission and go directly to wireless/cell phones, hand held devices, particularly with the advent of Android, develop local wind and solar power sources to battery power and so on and so forth. It is already happening in many places in India. What Africa needs is a lot of sensible and commercially oriented financing with guaranteed hands off commitments from the local governments. Africa has the potential. We are not being proactive enough to undo centuries of neglect. They can leapfrog. Omit some paths like fixed lines for telephones and power transmission and go directly to wireless/cell phones, hand held devices, particularly with the advent of Android, develop local wind and solar power sources to battery power and so on and so forth. It is already happening in many places in India.

What Africa needs is a lot of sensible and commercially oriented financing with guaranteed hands off commitments from the local governments. Africa has the potential. We are not being proactive enough to undo centuries of neglect.

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