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Without Internet access, are computers any good for Sierra Leone?

(This is my summary of a story told me by Lucia Mazzoni. Paragraphs in bold and beginning with my name are my own comments, added later. The second part is here) In February 2012, I spent 15 days in Sierra Leone, to meet the people helped by a project launched 10 years ago. After the Civil War the people in greatest trouble were those who had suffered amputations: the project helps a group of amputeed (hands, arms, feet, legs .

Apr 21, 2012 - 3 min read

Is Sierra Leone, without Internet and Free Software, just a knowledge landfill?

(This is the second and last part (the first is here) of the report by Lucia Mazzoni about computer science and education in Sierra Leone. Paragraphs in bold starting with my name are my own comments, added later.)

Apr 21, 2012 - 4 min read

How can you sell quality olive oil online?

Jan 18, 2012 - 4 min read

If European senior, jobless or student citizens knew that...

(this is a reformatted version of a proposal I submitted to the Gdansk Agenda website in September 2011) According to a survey published in December 2011 from the EU statistical agency, more than 100 million EU citizens have never surfed the Web. That’s why one of the goal of the Gdansk Agenda is digital inclusion. When I put that survey side by side with the crisis Europe is going through, it seems evident to me that both simple ECDL-style teaching on how to use computers and the Internet and bringing broadband everywhere are absolutely unsufficient to achieve digital inclusion.

Jan 2, 2012 - 2 min read

Bringing rural Europe online: what’s better, wireless or fiber?

Dec 12, 2011 - 4 min read

Lack of public interest

Sep 16, 2011 - 2 min read