Next week is going to be the real launch of our mobile entrepreneurs project, under funding from Vodafone. While the project officially started 1st April. We are now going to Accra and start the work locally. During a week, George Sadowsky (Web Foundation consultant), Dominique Hazael-Massieux (volunteer), and I are going to visit different people and organizations and start building our plan for this program. We will be accompanied by our colleagues from Vodafone UK: Steve Wolak, and Franco Papeschi.
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Internet, Media, Responsibility in a Commencement Speech
I had the great pleasure of watching my daughter graduate from Dickinson College a few weeks ago (I could say much more about the emotional and financial aspects of this milestone). The commencement speaker was Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek magazine and Pulitzer Prize-winning author — one of the most insightful, humorous and articulate speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. Just one section of his speech gave me pause:
“Technology … has created the means by which voices, often anonymous, can be heard saying things they would not be brave enough to say with their lips. With power comes responsibility. But too often the Internet has divorced the two. Now anyone can say anything with impunity. … May your generation be the one to stand up to reflexive extremism and on-line hyperbole … and say enough — this will not stand”.
Web-Empowered Education, Agriculture and More: World Economic Forum on Africa
The Web has the potential to increase access to educational materials in Africa, and make it easier for people in Africa to contribute new materials to the world.
This is a belated post on the World Economic Forum on Africa, held last month in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. First, this event has been in Cape Town, South Africa in past years, and it is critical that WEF moved it closer to the locus of matters of greatest importance to the continent. Second, the gathering of leaders and practitioners from government, industry, and philanthropy provided the perfect mix for gaining feedback on the programs and plans of the World Wide Web Foundation.
I was invited to talk in the session, Higher Education in Africa, with a focus on the use of the Web to empower educators and students to access content from around the world, and, ultimately, to contribute educational materials for the benefit of the rest of the world. The format of my talk, Web-Empowered Education in Africa —
ICT4D and Business Models
Let me start with my best wishes for 2010!
I’m starting to investigate the business side of ICT4D projects. Identifying the business model is (or should be!) obviously a critical dimension for most ICT4D projects. Indeed, that’s the study of how to make services at least self-sustainable, or to provide revenue to the provider.
Identifying the cost [...]
Fourth Day in Uganda
November 26 2009: the Fourth day! For those who are starting to be bored by the journey of the Web Foundation in East Africa, don’t worry, this is almost the end !
This day was a second day dedicated to field visit. Leaving Bushenyi early in the day, as usual, at 8:00 we headed to Queen [...]
Third Day in Uganda
November 25 2009: Third day, beginning of the field visit. As always, heavy day ! we left Kampala at 7:30am en route to Bushenyi, to meet with Eric Cantor, and visit Grameen Foundation AppLab . Normal driving time is 5 hours… with car failure, water leaks… more than 7 hours! Fortunately, Uganda is a [...]
Kenya: Summary of the Visit
This is second post about Kenya, focused on the content of our meetings. As mentioned in my previous post, we met government representatives, NGOs/civil society organization, industry leaders and developers networks.
About government, we had 3 different meetings with ministers and parliamentarians. There were some commonalities among these discussions. First of all, it was impressive for [...]
Web Foundation Workshop in Egypt
While those in Boston were working day and night preparing the new Web site and speaking with the press, I was with Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Dardailler in Sharm-el-Sheik, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting, to participate in the launch of the Web Foundation and to organize a workshop on the Web Foundation. This [...]
Transcript of Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation
[return to Web Foundation creation announcement page]
[watch the video]
(14 September 2008, Washington, DC, USA) Well, thank you, Alberto, for those words. Thank you for inviting us to the dinner. Thank you for your support. I suppose the path to my standing here traces its way at one point back in March to a conversation I [...]