V. Nice Wesley, This is a v important point... .... I remember in science fiction reading and futuristic views of tech in the nineties the adage " the network is the computer" This is becoming more and more true. Sine both of us have a foot in the Skunkworks/dev and Kictanet/policy lists and in view of the recent discussions in S/works around policy I would like to present both a challenge and an opportunity. Could we consider a Dev/Policy think-tank (3:1, dev:policy) that can look at the opportunity to define such platforms for Kenya's national development? I think a good starting point would be the Pasha programme as this will be an e-cosystem that spans the entire country and could potentially have incredible impact. In fact, could I talk at the next skunks meet about the Pasha tech infostructure concept? I can assure you it is networking/deployment on an unprecedented level. B Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jul 2008, at 9:36 AM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Good people,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7466085.stm
In summary the first part of the article (what I was interested in) talks about how platforms are taking over the net and are squeezing out the liberty to develop apps that use the net. Platforms include facebook, google apps and apple.
One of the main arguments is that e.g. in Facebook the developer has to agree to the terms of the platform which might not be very favourable.
"...[There are] rights to charge the makers of applications for the privilege of allowing that application to continue to exist on Facebook at any rate Facebook chooses. Rights to terminate any application that they don't like, for any reason..."
Good Weekend.
Ohh, almost forgot
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