Welcome to the 2nd annual review of telecommunications infrastructure development in Africa. Last year was my first attempt at painting a big picture of communication infrastructure development on the continent and it seemed to fill a gap in…
It’s no secret that I am a fan of Google’s Project Link. I’ve written about why I think it can play a critical role in breaking down the barriers of mistrust among operators and how…
Last Sunday, I was fortunate enough to participate as a representative of NSRC at an event at the United Nations to mark the launch of the US State Department’s new Global Connect initiative. My co-panelists were…
Recently I’ve been writing about the relationship of openness and trust in open movements which has led me to think more about the strategic role of trust in general. Now I find that almost every…
The idea for AfTerFibre is simple enough. Distribute the load of gathering information on terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa by creating an online resource that anyone can contribute to. When I conceived of this project, I just assumed there would be an easy way to this. After all, we have Wikipedia, Ushahidi, Fusion Tables, and loads of rapidly growing Open Source GIS initiatives.