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Economic Development
- Local + International
- Internet is a Tool... and a Challenge
- Things are different!
- Access
- Glut (of information)
- Language (gaps)
- Education level
- (we could really use some) Databases
- Knowledge
- Experts
- Local trust / contact (is critical to successful / effective projects)
- Concrete? Disappear (that is, when the discussion gets concrete, people evaporate)
- Alternative economic models: "Freebay"
- high tech risks losing the human touch.
- As much as technology is helpful, we need to be sure to maintain the human connection; something the developing world may only know.
- Next steps
- Consolidate ideas
- Strengthen connections
- Connect with other Idealist "BOFs" ("Birds of a Feather")
- meet again
- Those present
- Brian
- Elaine
- Milton
- Jeremy
- Lynn
- Falguni
- Lakshmi
- Curt