Africa Needs ICT
Alex Steffen, 23 Sep 04
SmartMobs brings us this: African Leaders Seek More Cell Phones, Computers.
"African leaders will launch a global fund to help people in poor countries buy mobile phones and Internet access as a step out of poverty and into economic growth, the president of Senegal said on Wednesday.
"There are more telephones in Manhattan than in all Africa," President Abdoulaye Wade said at a news conference held on the sidelines of a U.N. General Assembly meeting. ...
"The new fund, pooling voluntary contributions solicited from buyers of high-tech goods in wealthy nations, will be launched in Geneva on Nov. 17, Wade said."
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