[wsfii-discuss] WSFII Africa - ICT Conference

Tue Nov 21 10:33:44 UTC 2006

Jeff

Haven't we been discussing precisely this already? Was
it outside this list?

If anyone is interested, I will be glad to share a
proposal for an extensive GIS based information
sharing online service - if there is somewhere the pdf
can be hosted, well and good. 

Basically, it is designed to be user-centric, and
includes extensive use of voice-enabled features in
order to maximise grassroots participation. Many of
the features already exist, either open or openly
available, as in Google Earth, but need to be
integrated. A core team to do this has been
identified, but actual work is held up pending
sourcing some sustainable funding. 

---
Vickram

--- Jeff Buderer <jeff at onevillagefoundation.org>
wrote:

> I am wondering about any ideas you or other her
> might might have for 
> developing a GIS program that is open content/open
> data based that would 
> fit with our plan to roll out Open Digital Villages
> starting with 
> Winneba Ghana in early 07.
> 
> We have long wanted to include GIS in the
> development these ICT centres, 
> so this might be an opportunity to practically
> consider the appropriate 
> process and technologies should be considered in
> such a plan.
> 
> We also might want to set up a wiki space (somewhere
> in the WSFII wiki 
> universe) specifically to discuss and put together a
> plan for this.
> 
> Jeff
> 
>  P. Lauriault wrote:
> 
> > The following arrived from science and development
> net 
> > (http://www.scidev.net/)  this morning and I
> thought it might be of 
> > interest to some of you.  The list of program
> committee members is 
> > quite extensive w/some very interesting
> organizations and some on that 
> > list could possibly assist with Ghana.
> > __________________________________
> >

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