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Local geek puts his rural village onto the Internet, building a comprehensive website. But most of the villagers are interested in the ‘net as a way to get out of the village and into the cities.
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Inflows of migrants aren’t stemming the shrinkage of European nations, as slowing birthrates lead to fewer native-born citizens…
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Alas. I was one of Boeing’s few customers for this service, and found it completely invaluable. Hope someone tries this again in a few more years….
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A documentary on Nile perch, connecting the fish trade in Lake Victoria to arms shipments to the Lakes region, angers Tanzanian politicians… Interested to see the documentary, which sounds like it’s trying to draw natural resources/weapons connections i
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BBC reports heavy use of its website via WAP in Nigeria, Uganda
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Tony liked the NYT article on Africa and trendiness even less than I did: “Fortunately, this makes them straightforward and quick to fix–if we really, really try. Disease? Send medicine. Too many poor people? Send money. Senseless ethnic bloodletting? Se
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Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed of the UIC is rallying warlords against the threat of invasion/occupation/annexation by Ethiopia…
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Roughly $30k in aid per person given for victims of the SEAsia Tsunami, $40k per person for Katrina… and roughly $2k per victim of AIDS
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smart post from Bruce Sterling on the net, jets, globalism and terror. nice overlap with Daniel Cohen’s thinking on imaginary globalization
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“A constitution doesn’t make you free. It also makes a lousy bullet-proof vest. I prefer Kevlar and those nice ceramic inserts.” Reflections on doing business in Somalia as an American
Another you might be interested in:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06229/714284-96.stm
From the language, I couldn’t help but think that the author found that the dealmaking and characters involved where a little shady – here’s to hoping that no. Also, I had doubt that the full-fiber approach is the best way to go?
As to how much we spend on Aids, Roger England had an op-ed in the FT last week where he actually argued that we might be spending too much on AIDS (or perhaps better said: we need to be spending more on other diseases too).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a6ea1c50-2bf9-11db-a7e1-0000779e2340.html
[In case no FT access, some of it copied here: http://pienso.typepad.com/pienso/2006/08/do_we_spend_too.html and also here in Spanish: http://www.adnmundo.com/contenidos/economia/gastos_mundo_sida_170806_ec.html%5D
Folks have wildly differing opinions on the Rwanda project. The article has some major errors in it, though – it suggests that there was no telecoms infrastructure in Rwanda prior to Wyler’s arrival – actually, MTN has been quite succesful in Rwanda, and some internet cafes have done very well with satellite access. And it’s hardly Wyler’s quixotic goal – Kagame has bet the national future on the idea of becoming a cyberhub for Africa. Interesting piece, nevertheless – I don’t know Wyler, but from what I’ve heard, he certainly sounds like a character.
The essay “Somalia and Anarchy” was interesting, although I think it is worth noting that the region that the author seemed to be familiar with, Awdal, seems to be in the northwest corner of Somalialand, and therefore might not be representative of other parts of the country.
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