[Air-L] Stimulus spending on brodband

[scott at scottmacleod.com]

Here's a book from the MIT Press making an argument for the best way to 
bring broadband to the developing world. 

The Road to Broadband Development in Developing Countries Is By
Competition Driven By Wireless and Internet Telephony
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/itid.2007.3.2.21?cookieSet=1 
&journalCode=itid 

Scott 

http://scottmacleod.com 

 


Emma Duke-Williams writes: 

> 2009/1/28 Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>:
>> In Canada our countries budget just passed or will pass tomorrow. It
>> includes stimulus spending on broadband for rural areas any thoughts on
>> this? 
>>
>> Can other nationals in other countries report you regions spending on
>> Internet and of course the climate for research spending on Internet?
> 
> The UK government are discussing just that today :)  (Well, the UK
> view of it, they're not discussing the Canadian approach!) 
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7858498.stm 
> 
> -- 
> Emma Duke-Williams:
> School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
> Portsmouth, UK.
> Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
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