Message-ID: <0098EC87151111C0.0000333F@tmar.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:55:37 EST From: "Chuck B. at Ext. 214" <mailto:chuckb@TMAR.COM> Subject: Telecom-related postings, again To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Here, in abbreviated form, is the first posting on
Telecom in the Service of Development that I tried to forward
to you earlier. To be on the safe side, I shall send the first
summary in two stages, the second with some meat on it.
c.b.
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:23:22 EDT
Originally-From: Don Richardson <mailto:drichard@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Africa net access - McBride Rpt
GROUP URGES BETTER INFORMATION HIGHWAY ACCESS FOR AFRICA ....
TUNIS, TUNISIA (March 18, 1995). The MacBride Round Table
on Communication has released its 1995 statement regarding national and
international communication equity. The communication rights
advocacy group met 16-18 March in Tunis, where the meeting theme was
"Africa Faces the Information Highways." .... [the Round Table organizer,
in summing up, stated that] "Africa has the right to hope for more
participation and democracy, better education by teleteaching, better
public health via telemedicine, and greater export of services by way of
telework." The group recommended that "now would be the time to show
honest and active solidarity with the hard pressed peoples of the continent,
starting from their real needs .... "
"Today over half the world's population has not yet made a
telephone call, and many African nations enjoy less than one percent
ownership of this century-old communication technology," says MacBride
Round Table chairperson, Dr. Richard Vincent of the University of
Hawaii and Dublin City University (Ireland). He adds that "the gap still
remains between the world's information rich and information poor. The
introduction of an information super highway may only magnify this
problem if left unchecked."