[wsfii-discuss] Economic Sustainability of Community Wireless

Fri Apr 6 12:04:34 UTC 2007

Hi Marco,

I am including Gideon Amoah of http://www.wirelessghana.com/ in this
mail, he is not often online but once in a while we chat on Gmail
chat..

Gideon, Marco got a contact at a factory from germany as a hardware donator
(hf-wire/cable). Contact marco.pompe at web.de to talk on possible
donations from Germany for Wireless Ghana.

And Gideon we at WSFII ofcourse would love to hear from you what
happend yesterday, when you had the visit of a very famous and very
blond reporter....

Full story with pictures, please ;-) (just joking... you decide when
it is the right time to mail about all this)

Cheers! Freddy

On 4/6/07, marco <marco.pompe at web.de> wrote:
> Vickram Crishna wrote:
> >
> > As AirJaldi/Wsfii demonstrated, the 'critical mass' of
> >  tech-related awareness in Indian civil society is
> > largely absent, and a huge amount of work needs to be
> > done to bring it to the fore. Without that, it is hard
> > to see how truly 'people-focused' sustainable models
> > can be implemented.
> >
> I am quite sure in Ghana we (the wsfii sisters) have a chance in that. I
> have been there in october talking to lots of different people from all
> spectre and I really believe there is hugh interest and a high public
> potential. the media is free and vibrant. officials are very often
> dedicated to the welfare of the people. if we are able to present some
> serious and clear concepts for social and ecomical implementation of
> WIFI networks, the Ghanians will be on our side, dont they, Jeff? Kafui?
> Gideon? and everybody ...
>
> @ ramon: you are missing the cooperative movement? but its there.
> certainly not like 40 years ago, but we all know that the economical
> circumstances have changed rapidly, and not to the better for social
> enterprises. we are heading towards a new time in a rapid speed,
> globally. what we do today will affect the future more than ever. if we
> are sleeping today we will pay an enormous price for that failure in the
> nearest future. i am totally aware of the limits of capacity to bring
> about the radical change the world actually needs. but at least we can
> do our best to plant the seeds which maybe can have the chance to grow a
> better humanity in future.
>
> so please, everybody, lets focus a little on the opportunities we have,
> which are indeed versatile. its not just 1+1 but in fact some simple
> additional opperations will surely help us to develop an exciting and
> realistic vision for ghana.
>
> grts, marco pompe, berlin
>
> ps: where are the wirelessghana.com guys? pls, say something ...
> ps2: i ve got a factory from germany as a hardware donator
> (hf-wire/cable) ...
>
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