Comments on: When Data isn’t Data yet http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2008/09/18/when-data-isnt-data-yet/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Andy Bitterer http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2008/09/18/when-data-isnt-data-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Andy Bitterer Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:28:49 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/?p=7#comment-10 I guess that could work, theoretically. Changing behavior always works when people feel the impact in their wallets. Of course, there is the danger that the camera or the PC is worth more when nicked and sold than maybe somebody's yearly salary. The other issue in remote areas is connectivity and bandwidth. Here you can get a 50 Mbit VDSL line into private homes. In large parts of Africa you are lucky if you have a 56k modem line ... into a business branch. I guess that could work, theoretically. Changing behavior always works when people feel the impact in their wallets.

Of course, there is the danger that the camera or the PC is worth more when nicked and sold than maybe somebody’s yearly salary.

The other issue in remote areas is connectivity and bandwidth. Here you can get a 50 Mbit VDSL line into private homes. In large parts of Africa you are lucky if you have a 56k modem line … into a business branch.

]]> By: Timo Elliott http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2008/09/18/when-data-isnt-data-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Timo Elliott Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:24:59 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/?p=7#comment-8 First step is should be incentives to get others to gather the data -- I read somewhere that one area was forcing rural teachers to take photographs of themselves each day with their pupils, and they didn't get paid without being to produce them (sorry, couldn't find the link -- might have been using the XO computers) First step is should be incentives to get others to gather the data — I read somewhere that one area was forcing rural teachers to take photographs of themselves each day with their pupils, and they didn’t get paid without being to produce them (sorry, couldn’t find the link — might have been using the XO computers)

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