Undersea Cables Update

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I’ve now moved the African Undersea Cables map to a permanent page that I will update as new information emerges.  The latest revision includes updates of:

the EASSy cable to reflect its growth to 1.4 terabits
the TEAMS cable to reflect its growth to 1.2 terabits [...]

Sub-saharan Africa Undersea Cables in 2010 – take 7

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The undersea cable environment around the African continent continues to evolve.  Proposed cables appear, disappear, merge.  A testament to the competitive environment.  In this latest update, I have added the MaIN OnE cable which appears to be making progress.  Thanks to Abi Jagun for finding [...]

The OLPC Effect

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he One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project comes in for a lot of criticism for being, among other things, “centralised and top-down”. Critics also argue that academia and philanthropy should not be interfering in areas where the market is clearly in a better place both [...]