[Nettime-bold] Re: Fwd: <nettime> High tech trash

[m hardie <auskadi@cwpanama.net>]

Have any of you africa types done anything in ozambique...
I ma moving there in may and only have contacts thru east Timor or bike 
riding
martin

philip pocock wrote:
> 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
> 
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