If this morning’s session had moments that reminded me of the hyper-optimism of TED, a session this afternoon on risk on the African continent had… Read More »Big ideas at the World Economic Forum, Cape Town
It’s hard to imagine two gatherings more different, on their surface, between TED Global in Arusha, and the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Cape Town,… Read More »WEF: Investment Climate Facility for Africa
At tonight’s Harvard Law School cocktail party, before Nicholas Negroponte arrived to give a talk about One Laptop Per Child, a friend asked me why… Read More »An update on OLPC from Dr. Negroponte
Got some strong feelings about who should succeed Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank? If you’d like your feelings to be heard… Read More »Tell the World Bank what to do
I did a phone interview earlier this week with a reporter from Deutsche Welle about Global Voices and the ways that our project is encouraging… Read More »What I think we’re trying to do…
My friend JC Herz spoke at the same State Department event I was attending in Washington yesterday, and came away with the best quote of… Read More »Ooh! Shiny!