Yesterday I touched down with my family in Halifax, Canada, our new home for the next few years. Well, actually near there, a small town south of Halifax called Lunenburg. When you have a foot in more than one country, choosing where to live can be complicated.
In this case, the choice was not so hard. Our boys are at an age (6,6, and 7) where spending some time growing up closer to their grandparents is going to make their lives a much richer experience.
From a professional perspective this is a little complicated as all of my work with Village Telco, spectrum advocacy, among other things, is focused on affordable access to communication infrastructure in emerging markets. Managing my carbon footprint over the next couple of years is likely to be challenging.
I am gutted to have left South Africa when there feels like so much unfinished business for me there but I hope to be back there often enough to stay engaged and maintain my dual identity.
If you’re a Nova Scotian and are interested in Africa, hacking, open source, and wireless technologies, I’d love to meet you. All of the above would be amazing but I’d happily settle for any subset. 🙂
Best of luck in your new digs, Stephen! You can even moonlight summers at the local “medieval town” – beautiful area, we passed through the summer of ’88, en route to Prince Edward Island. I especially loved the lupines!
Hi Steve, Nice to note that you arrived safely with your family.
I just wanted to know from you if you can help me get in toch with somebody in the operations or close to those managing any of the submarine cables in south Africa as i had planned to come down to south Africa and meet you for a discission regarding my resaerch on submarine cables unfortunately i had not informed you in advance.
Thanks
Richard