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		<title>Empowering Rural Health Workers with Mobile Video</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/empowering-rural-health-workers-with-mobile-video/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/empowering-rural-health-workers-with-mobile-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Strickland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ICT4D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist State-of-the-art broadband services still don’t reach many parts of the African continent, especially rural villages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Financing for Broadband Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/creative-broadband-infrastructure-financing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/creative-broadband-infrastructure-financing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist One of the challenging issues about deploying broadband – so they say – is the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of Dogs and Toilets: The Law of Unintended Consequences</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/of-dogs-and-toilets-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/of-dogs-and-toilets-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grounding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecommunications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telephone network]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=81528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Shepard, Contributing Columnist Wikipedia defines it as “A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended.” It turns [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Broadband Infrastructure: Should Rural Investment Be a Priority?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/broadband-infrastructure-should-rural-investment-be-a-priority/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/broadband-infrastructure-should-rural-investment-be-a-priority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=80641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist Sometimes those promoting extensive infrastructure projects &#8212; broadband or otherwise &#8212; exhibit a Field of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Living in the Future is Awesome</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/living-in-the-future-is-awesome/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/living-in-the-future-is-awesome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Strickland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Clayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasmania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video conferencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VNI-SA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Lionel Walters,  Guest Columnist Some of the most compelling memories I have from my school years involve trips away [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>USDA Grants Help Rural Communities Connect</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/government/usda-grants-help-rural-communities-connect/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/government/usda-grants-help-rural-communities-connect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerry Best</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telehealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telemedicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[videoconferencing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=57211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study from the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222495/Telehealth_can_reduce_deaths_by_45_study_shows?taxonomyId=15" target="_blank">U.K. Department of Health</a> finds that using remote monitoring technology to keep tabs on patients’ blood sugar and cardiopulmonary [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>M-Agriculture Empowers Farmers in Developing Economies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/m-agriculture-empowers-farmers-in-developing-economies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/m-agriculture-empowers-farmers-in-developing-economies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M-agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=52688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist A while back, I wrote about the potential for <a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/mobile-banking-improves-lives-and-economies-in-the-developing-world/" target="_blank">mobile banking</a> to create new opportunity and economic [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Rural Broadband Access Matters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/why-rural-broadband-access-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/why-rural-broadband-access-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social and economic development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist Countries blessed and cursed with wide-open spaces continue to wrestle with the question of how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Broadband Access Fuel Job Creation?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/can-broadband-access-fuel-job-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/can-broadband-access-fuel-job-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Provider]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=45130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The message from leaders across rural America is clear &#8212; they want broadband access to the internet, and they’re hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Broadband Boosts Individual Productivity</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/how-broadband-boosts-individual-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/how-broadband-boosts-individual-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connected Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wireless]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=36017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist We&#8217;ve shared our perspective about how broadband boosts the potential productivity of <a href="../../../../../cle/africa-no-longer-the-dark-continent/" target="_blank">continents</a> , <a href="../../../../../cle/economic-incentive-for-telecom-infrastructure-investment/" target="_blank">countries</a> , and [...]]]></description>
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