Reducing One Aspect of the Digital Divide – Connectivity
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This note is based on discussions with and a vision by several colleagues, notably Prof. Raj Reddy and Prof. V. S. Arunachalam, at Carnegie Mellon, and interactions with numerous other professionals, including those affiliated to the World Bank and the UN ICT Task Force. There are many assumptions made in this note that are not shown, and no claim is made for the optimality or universality of the solutions or ideas. Nonetheless, the FiberAfrica proposal is an attempt that has been thought through at many levels by a number of professionals, and we hope that decisionmakers will at the very least engage in a serious dialogue over proposals such as this one.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005