Mar 25, 02:03 pm: UN-GAID: United Nations Meets Web 2.0 and ICT Entrepreneurs - Notes from the opening

A mix of observations and snippets of quotes. Context and spelling may both be lacking.

  • Internet lowers the threshold to start a business
  • ICT can allow entrepreneurs to flourish improving the economy overall
  • Investment, partnerships required to build robust platforms
  • ICT must be spread in the community facilitates national security, law and order
  • I think the speaker from Ghana just said their e-govt initiative supported by 13M US $.
  • Building a fiber optic backbone in Ghana
  • Cannot explain term “emerging markets” but would say “changing geo-global markets”.
  • “Never seen so much fast and dramatic change in the economic world order as seen today.”
  • “To get things we have partners. For fun, we go to friends.”
  • Biz speaker calling for GAID to translate into action and turn the good will into bottom line results

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Marnie Webb  |