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JORIS Komen pauses
halfway through his seven-minute presentation and declares: “I am a hacker”.
As executive director of Schoolnet Namibia, Komen is
constantly in battle with the harsh realities of lack of resources in his
quest to make information and communication technologies (ICTs) accessible
to young people in Namibia.
Komen lobbies for an open source platform that makes access
to the internet cheaper and simpler. He talks about the need for
telecommunications companies to join in the effort to improve access to ICTs.
He identifies privatisation of telecommunications and
software development monopolies as the main threats to the ideal of making
ICTs available for development of impoverished communities.
See also:
http://informatics.icipe.org/icwesa/proceedings/doc34.htm
and
http://informatics.icipe.org/icwesa/icwesa_old/postdocs/jkomen.htm
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