Steve Denning story about the aid worker in rural Zambia; he told at NetHope Summit in 2005
Two springboard stories Steve told at the 2005 NetHope Summit:
The Zambia Story
"In June of 1995, a health worker in a tiny town in Zambia went to the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and the got the answer to a question about the treatment for malaria. Remember that this was in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it happened in a tiny place 600 kilometers from the capital city. But the most striking thing about this picture, at least for us, is that the World Bank isn't in it. Despite our know-how on all kinds of poverty related issues, that knowledge isn't available to the millions of people who could use it. Imagine if it were. Think what an organization we could become." --Stephen Denning, HBR article.
Substitute a connectivity question and the networking knowledge collectively among NetHope members, and this could be our story. |