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Introduction
Information Society and Development
Conference ---
What was and is happening?
Edwin Blake
Department of Computer Science,
University of
Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700.
email: edwin@cs.uct.ac.za
27th November, 1996
Abstract:
The G7 Information Society and Development
Conference (ISAD) took place in May 1996. This paper is a somewhat
irreverent look at the conference and its impact. It is also a very
personal view. The only scholarly part of this paper are the
World Wide Web references provided at the end and serious readers and
politicians are advised to skip to them straight away.
ISAD was more a historic confluence of people rather than a meeting of
minds. The division being that the interests of the developing world lie
in development and the interests of the developed world lie in
marketing. As far as South Africa is concerned the follow-up to ISAD has
been a lot less impressive than the lead-in.
Thu Nov 28 13:03:56 SAT 1996