Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960517124621.15448A-100000@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:02:30 -0400 From: Joel Vignon <mailto:jvignon@HUBCAP.CLEMSON.EDU> Subject: Re: Re[5]: Computers to Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Well, I am here for 2/3 years to get my Master's so I still consider myself in Africa. By the way, I still have headaches thinking about how to get my Pentium connected to the internet when I'll be back home, and how I'll pay the darn bills.Some time ago, I've expressed my opinion clearly: if the only need to give computers to underdeveloped countries is to get rid of useless stuff, please keep the junk at home! Technology knows no border. What is junk in the US is junk anywhere else. People just takes more time to realise it.
Joel.
> By the way I am not African I just happen to work here. I am trying to
> work myself out of a job so that some African national can do it.
>
> And as for this inquiring of Usenet groups please see my append of
> yesterday. Half the issue is that we cant get to the darn Usenet
> groups. (I can but I have foreign currency...)
>
> As far as I can tell Dr Lisse and I are the only ones who are
> participating in this discussion who are actually in Africa. (If there
> are others then sorry and please make yourself known.) Does that give
> some kind of clue about the situation? There are plenty of Africans
> who would relish this interaction but don't have the access the
> equipment or the dollars to pay the phone bill.
>
> Stephe