Raivo Kelomees on 3 Apr 2001 14:28:22 -0000


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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Estonian Promise


Dear Paolo di Maio

I am sure that "look@world" is good project for people, but it is also
very profitable for companies. It sounds very like "for all", but in fact
it is mostly for equiped people. Truth is, that weather is very bad here
for 9 months in a year and if there is possibile to avoid going out,
communicate or work via internet, then people will stay at home. Maybe
that is reason of success of internet in the North.

Look also: http://www2.et.ee/5024.html. Eesti Telefon is actually big
telecom monopoly which is "adjusting" call prices almost every month.

Raivo Kelomees

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Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Content-Wire.com
wrote:

> 
> Dear Nettimers
> 
> I am just looking into the Estonian 'internet for all' project and wonder
> if you have any information or thoughts.
> 
-> In particular, I am trying to understand the economic rationale behind
it
> 
> I'll be grateful for your contributions, and will include relevant bits in
> an article that I am thinking about
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> ==================================
> Paola Di Maio
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.content-wire.com/Home/Index.cfm?ccs=86&cs=150
> Fresh Picks  
> Internet Europe: The Great Estonian Promise
>  
> 
> Estonia internet for all initiative could be a great example for the rest
> of the world, provided 'new slavery' is not part of the plan 
> 
> by Paola Di Maio 
> 30 March 2001, 2:30 pm GMT 
> 
> 
> In the Baltic Republic of Estonia the intenet economy could be getting a
> big boost thanks to the initiative launched by Eesti Telefon, Eesti
> Uhispank, IBM, Oracle, Microlink, says Charlie Doolan of Yankee Europe.
> 
> Working with the local government the project aims to make the Internet
> available to all Estonian residents within three years.  It will boost the
> penetration rate from its current level of 32% up to more than 70% by
> 2004, pushing it ahead of its neighbor, Finland says the analyst.
> 
> The project, called Vaata Maailma (look@world), must address four areas to
> achieve its goal content, access, attitude, and education.
> 
> Future content services may include access to state-run activities such as
> online health care and schooling.
> 
> Low-cost computers packaged with cheap financing and free Internet access
> will be aimed at consumers and businesses, and Internet training courses
> will be run either through employers or the state.
> 
> Sounds too good to be true.
> 
> Governments and companies suddenly moved by philantropy, can't be.
> 
> I guess there must be an economic rationale behind the idea.
> 
> Perhaps Estonians can be easily trained and put online so that the
> companies who have invested find themselves with a massive virtual factory
> of skilled labour at their disposal.
> 
> If that's was the case, it could not be so bad at all, in fact it could be
> a new way of solving huge world economic imbalances.
> 
> There are vast regions in the world that could benefit from such schemes,
> provided the labour is protected from exploitation, and that can keep an
> interest , possibly a share of ownership in the product of their work.
> 
> Otherwise it isn't new-economy, but new slavery. And Netcitizens would not
> allow that, would they?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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