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« Is coverage is the way forward? | Home | Why the summit matters » October 25, 2003Telephone Tax. Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade has proposed a global tax on international calls, personal computers and software packages. Revenue would fund a "digital solidarity" fund to help Africa catch up with the IT revolution."It is paradoxical and ironic that the continent which invented writing . . . [is] excluded from universal knowledge," the President commented. His tax, he argued, would be a painless one. Daily Summit is not so sure - shrieks of pain can be expected from IT lobbies should the proposal ever be put seriously on the table once the summit gets going in Geneva next month...
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