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	Africa's ICT Wave

ezqimo

5-28-2007 11:15 AM

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africa, ict, development

ezqimo says:

"the power of IT to transform the continent, and on its ability to help countries “skip steps in development”"

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a36ef87-d200-46c3-96cf-7176c65c7996/4B7DFBF4-1CDE-4861-BC15-5EC863EAA761/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://amglobal.blogspot.com/2007/04/africas-ict-wave-reaches-san-francisco.html" href="http://amglobal.blogspot.com/2007/04/africas-ict-wave-reaches-san-francisco.html" style="font-size: 11px;">amglobal.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amglobal.blogspot.com/2007/04/africas-ict-wave-reaches-san-francisco.html"><P><SPAN>About three weeks ago, I sat in a conference  hall in San Francisco and listene</SPAN><SPAN>d </SPAN><SPAN>a</SPAN><SPAN>s President Paul Kagame of Rwanda  addressed a group of African and US Government officials.</SPAN><SPAN>  Nothing  particularly remarkable in that.  Its part of the role of head  of state, after all.</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amglobal.blogspot.com/2007/04/africas-ict-wave-reaches-san-francisco.html"><P><SPAN>However, the location was more than  symbolic.  The event was at the </SPAN><SPAN>Hilton, in t</SPAN><SPAN>he Financial District,  in tech-rich northern California.   And the audience was chock full  of luminaries of the IT world, from Cisco, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft  and others. What is even more </SPAN><SPAN>remarkable  is that nearly everyone  in the audience agreed. </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amglobal.blogspot.com/2007/04/africas-ict-wave-reaches-san-francisco.html"><P><SPAN>They agreed on the power of IT to transform  the continent, and</SPAN><SPAN> on its ability to help countries “skip steps in  development” by adding more dynamism to</SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>local business.  Kagame  himself referred cell phones as the <SPAN><SPAN></SPAN> </SPAN> “lifeline of microentrepreneurs”.<BR /></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B7DFBF4-1CDE-4861-BC15-5EC863EAA761/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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