2009 « Many Possibilities

WGSDIA – Support Open Spectrum

By Steve Song, on June 22nd, 2009

This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» This the first installment of a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for this post in the preface to the series. The single biggest barrier [...] [...]

What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface

By Steve Song, on June 19th, 2009

This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa, that is to say what I think they ought to be doing outside of their core business of selling advertising. Why pick [...] [...]

African Undersea Cables Update – Jun09

By Steve Song, on June 11th, 2009

When I first started a map of planned African undersea cable initiatives in early 2008, I never dreamt that I might start running out of space to put cables on the map. Yet, there it is. Over 11 terabits/s of capacity coming to the continent if they all manifest themselves. And then when the global [...] [...]