They turned off the Internet shortly after I left Harare. I don’t think the two events were connected. And they didn’t really turn the net… Read More »Holiday in Harare: part 4 – Zimbabwe’s Internet under threat
Well, we won’t be blogging realtime from the Digital Citizen Indaba. Rhodes University has pretty conservative policies on access to their academic network – I… Read More »Opening sessions at Digital Citizen Indaba
I’m coming to South Africa in mid-September for the Highway Africa conference, an annual conference on information technology and journalism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown,… Read More »Join us in South Africa!
Brewster Kahle starts his talk by declaring his goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”. He’s stolen a technique from Minsk – choose a big goal… Read More »Wikimania: Brewster Kahle’s Big Goal
My wife asked whether I thought anyone would mention Steven Colbert’s recent segment on Wikipedia at the Wikimania conference. “They won’t shut up about it,”… Read More »Jimmy Wales keynote at Wikimania
My friend Atanu Dey has a requiem for the One Laptop Per Child project in India that’s as critical of the Indian government as it… Read More »Atanu Dey’s useful questions on the OLPC in India