A peaceful EASSy feeling
How could someone who’s passionate about connectivity in the developing world be opposed to a fiber-optic cable designed to make bandwidth cheaper in East Africa?… Read More »A peaceful EASSy feeling
Finding reasons to laugh in Zimbabwe
Jonathan Clayton, blogging and reporting for the Times of London from Johannesburg, has a couple of good anti-Mugabe jokes that are going around on mobile… Read More »Finding reasons to laugh in Zimbabwe
FlexGo: the repo man on a microchip
One of the revolutionary ideas of the last few years in the technology industry is that the poor are a market. C.K. Prahalad’s “The Fortune… Read More »FlexGo: the repo man on a microchip
It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears. An update on the One Laptop Per Child project
Last Friday, I visited with my friends Walter Bender and Jim Gettys at the new headquarters of the One Laptop per Child Project – the… Read More »It’s cute. It’s orange. It’s got bunny ears. An update on the One Laptop Per Child project
Spend six months in Accra developing software…
I get a decent number of emails asking for opportunities to travel to Africa and work on technology projects. Since I haven’t worked with Geekcorps… Read More »Spend six months in Accra developing software…
Your language or mine?
My friend SJ Klein and I spent a chunk of yesterday evening talking about Wikimedia’s language issues. SJ is a wikipedian and a language enthusiast… Read More »Your language or mine?