Sub-saharan Africa Undersea Cables in 2010 – maybe
So what might the undersea cable environment for sub-Saharan Africa look like by the end of 2010? Perhaps it will look a bit like this: If anyone has a proposed map for Uhurunet and Main…
Dabba wins Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Last week in Berlin at a Forum on Social Entrepreneurship hosted by German venture capital company Hasso Plattner Ventures, Rael Lissoos and Dabba won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award. The event, sponsored…
The Silence of the Lambdas
I have been gradually getting my head around bandwidth purchasing models for undersea cables. In my second contribution to the Mail & Guardian’s innovative Techleader site, I use a real estate metaphor to contrast the…
Village Telco Workshop
At the Shuttleworth Foundation, the geek factor runs pretty high for a charitable foundation. However, my colleague Jason and I felt like lightweights at the the Village Telco workshop that we hosted here at the…
Open Standards – It’s Not Just Good for the Internet
A talk worth watching is Paul Collier’s heartfelt presentation at the TED event earlier this year. He talks a bit about his book The Bottom Billion which, as a non-economist, I am finding both insightful…