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[mizzio <mizzio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paolo,

thank you for your interview and for sharing this informations !

I can find quite a few common points in this experience with mine in
Uganda. In particular, I would like to underline the difficulties of
getting a decent internet connection is a still a big issue all around
Africa (and not only in Africa of course).
Any idea about reducing the digital divide for the developing countries
must keep this in mind; nowadays any operating system needs internet
connection (updates, software installation, etc.). Ubuntu is not
different on this as it strongly relies on net availability; I think it
would be really interesting to evaluate all the ideas about providing
services without a net connection; for example, having a quick and easy
way of setting up an apt repo on an usb drive would we really useful to
setup and mantain an Ubuntu based network.

Ciao,
maurizio

P.S.
Paolo, do you mind if I contact Luigi directly ?


Il giorno gio, 03/06/2010 alle 10.16 +0200, Paolo Sammicheli ha
scritto: 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Luigi Pertici from Togo (1) wrote an email in the Siena LUG Mailing list updating us 
> about the progress of his project.
> 
> He's arrived in Togo few days ago and he found that his activity with the public 
> computer lab made the first effect (see photo attached). Few smart young guys, leads by 
> the one in the photo called Elias, started their own activity installing and providing 
> services with Ubuntu.
> 
> Luigi said "do not think about him like an hardcore hacker" ;)
> 
> He just started and for real progress their are waiting for a decent Internet connection 
> in the town (the only one available at moment is really slow and it cost a fortune so 
> they can use it few hours at week) but things start moving and people realized that with 
> free software they can build their own business based on their own knownledge.
> 
> In that place, this is already a victory.
> 
> (1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/CaseStudy/PortoSeguro
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