<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sorry for incomplete message.</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Rightly said by Augustine!<br></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">By moving towards this direction we can give inexpensive technology (Software + Hardware) to people in the world. There many issues in developing countries but the access to expensive technologies is also a very common issue.</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The question is how we can make a movement to provide information about Open Source and Open Hardware to people in the developing countries.</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Again "Equal access to technology for everyone" is important for us.</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Babar</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Babar Zahoor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:babar@linuxurducbts.com" target="_blank">babar@linuxurducbts.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Rightly said by Auhustin, We need to move this direction for provide "Equal Access to Technology for Everyone"<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Babar<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Augustine CHII Ngek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chii.ngek@gmail.com" target="_blank">chii.ngek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Thanks for this initiative. In fact we have for long looked at internet as a service different from others but in developing countries internet is far fetched due to lack of electricity, lack of knowledge in open source and hardware and little or no local content. So, I think this is a move in the right direction.<br>
Augustin CHII<br>
ISOC Cameroon</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 16 Jan 2015 20:41, "Glenn McKnight" <<a href="mailto:glenn.mcknight@ieee.org" target="_blank">glenn.mcknight@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi All<div><br></div><div>On yesterday's call one of the questions was by myself on the relationship of ISOC and IEEE and another was on Open Hardware</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, Sally didn't ask me for any clarification and she assumed only one very narrow track within IEEE</div><div><br></div><div>Since 2008 I have been working on the IEEE Toronto Chapter , Global Humanitarian Technology Challenge, IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Canada HIC and the International Humanitarian Technology Challenge </div><div><br></div><div>All of these efforts have three main UN technology challenges </div><div>1. Reliable Electricity</div><div>2. Data Connectivity</div><div>3. Patient Records </div><div><br></div><div>All using an Open Source and an Open Hardware approach which was the second person's question. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is details on the Open Source Design details which will be held at the Ottawa May 31st IHTC </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ihtc2015.ieee.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HIC-IEEE-student-design-competition_KinSze1b.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ihtc2015.ieee.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HIC-IEEE-student-design-competition_KinSze1b.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If anyone is interested in these topics please contact me</div><div><br></div><div>Glenn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><br><div><br></div><div>Glenn McKnight, B.A, M.A</div><div>Chair: Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities(FBSC)</div><div>IEEE HIC Committee Member</div><div>IEEE PES CSI Committee Member</div><div>ICANN NARALO Member</div><div>Oshawa, Ontario Canada</div><div><a href="mailto:glenn.mcknight@ieee.org" target="_blank">glenn.mcknight@ieee.org</a></div><div>SKYPE: gmcknight</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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