Using the opportunity created by an invitation to make a dinner speech at the second international symposium of the Sabaragamuwa University, in scenic Belihuloya, I worked up a talk that drew on three different strands of LIRNEasia work, Teleuse@BOP, m-gov services and AgInfo, to work up what I thought to be a useful talk on what ICTs can do to help alleviate climate change caused by green house gases.
The slideset (a tad big because of all the nice pictures) is here.
Once the paper is ready for publication, a pre-pub version will appear here.
3 Comments
Ryan Lanham
Is the link to the PPT missing?
R.
Sanjana Hattotuwa
Link to presentation with all the nice pictures please?
Rohan Samarajiva
The link to the Montage website where the article was published: http://www.montagelanka.com/?p=96
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