[governance] Re: Upwardly Mobile In Africa

[jlfullsack]

Thanks Stephane
for this strong opinion on "wireless saving Africa's communications" !

I do share your views, particularly those expessed in your article (on your 
website) on the very reasons for Africa's failing infrastructure. As you, 
I'd want Africans being aware of this paramount and basic issue which is the 
main obstacle in real development.

Moreover, general Infrastructure is on several agendas such as the 
Europe-Africa Summit to be held in Lisbon during next december an is theme 
of an european-african partnership project launched during the German 
presidency of the European council. However, the basics on infrastructure 
from civil works engineering to water and electricity supply but also the 
appropriate Data bases devising is left out in these approches, mostly 
because of the lack of educational capacity of people involved in these 
projects.

Coming back to the info sent by David Goldstein, I think that these kinds of 
info are not only as many "ads", but serve mostly as an effective alibi for 
rich nations to limit their funding or spending on ODA ! And this is far 
more regrettable and destructive !

All the best

Jean-Louis Fullsack


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
To: "David Goldstein" <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Governance Mailing List" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:25 AM
Subject: [governance] Re: Upwardly Mobile In Africa


> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:33:05AM -0700,
> David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote
> a message of 42 lines which said:
>
>> Following on from the recent discussion on ICT in Africa, I found
>> this article in Business Week today.
>
> It is just another on of the many ads for the mobile phone industry.
>
> About wireless in Africa, I wrote a small opinion (in French):
>
> http://www.bortzmeyer.org/sans-fil.html
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