By Steve Song, on December 31st, 2008
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Yet Another Planned African Undersea Cable (YAPAUC). As 2008 draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect in amazement at the rash of announcements in the last year of planned undersea fibre-optic cables around the African continent. If only half of them come to [...]
By Steve Song, on December 29th, 2008
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Richard Heeks has written an interesting post entitled Mobiles for Impoverishment in which he says that recent m4d research “suggests mobiles are doing more economic harm than good, and sometimes making poor people poorer”. He points to quantitative and qualitative research that suggest that economic [...]
By Steve Song, on December 23rd, 2008
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I think there is a compelling reason why everyone ought to blog/tweet/social network or leave some sort of digital trail. As Seth Godin puts it,
the word blog is irrelevant, what’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent [...]
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