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Hi there,
\nI’m sitting at my desk working on a seminar\/speech I’m giving tomorrow at my old university study programme, D\u00d8K<\/a>.
\nIt’s an evening seminar about the Digital Divide and technology as a means of improving the quality of life in the developing world.
\nBased in part on my experiences with GeekCorps<\/a> in Ghana<\/a>, and in part on what I’ve been reading, studying, arguing with people before and especially after that excellent project. <\/p>\n

Well, preparing for this particular seminar is harder than I thought. I have lot’s of experience speaking at conferences, giving presentations, and generally listening to myself talk. This time however, I have no idea how many people will be there, what their additudes might be, and wether or not they really care about these issues. Also, I suddenly realize how appalingly little I actually know about these issues. My education is in IT and Economy, my proffessional experience is as a project manager, programmer, technical something-or-other and middle manager. That is until I mysteriously dissapeared to Ghana for 3 months. Apart from that stay, a 2 week training period before that, and my general interest in travelling, reading, and knowing-it-all, I really don’t have a clue. <\/p>\n

But I do know that these are issues that mean a lot more to me than most of what I’ve worked with so far. And I do spend a considerable amount of time at the moment, reading up o these issues, thinking about the applicability of projects like GeekCorps, and discussing many of these things with other interested people. It get’s me somewhere. <\/p>\n

Well, as part of my seminar tomorrow, I’ve decided to make a subsection of this site at http:\/\/digdiv.krag.org\/<\/a>.
\nHere I’ll keep a link section pointing to other organisations in the field, put up soem documents for download, and maybe even write a little about my perspective. But don’t expect too much. It’s hard enough for me to keep this page updated, without having to worry about other things. I’ll try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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