Category: World View
WGSDIA – Support Open Spectrum
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...
What Google Should Do In Africa – Preface
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. ...
African Women and American Academics
I find myself wondering if I am the only one dismayed by the “mudwrestling” going on among Dambisa Moyo, Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly… and others. In case you haven’t heard, Dambisa Moyo has written a provocative book on the...
Mobiles in Africa – We Need The Eggs
At the end of the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen says, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘well why don’t you turn him...
ICASA – Stealing from AIDS Orphans
So, I’ve moved on from righteous indignation yesterday to outright disbelief today. News this week that the South African communications regulator (ICASA) have sent their enforcers in to confiscate Dabba’s WiFi equipment in Orange Farm makes me angry enough to...