Tag Archives: connectivity

Om Malik Misses the Point on OLPC

March 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
OLPC may have it’s problems, but in my opinion, it’s not the ones described by GigaOm’s Om Malik in this blog post. In the post ...
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“It’s Called the Last Link…”

February 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Red Herring recently published this article by Alex Gronke about connecting Africa. This paragraph in particular caught my attention… It’s called the last link. The ...
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The Best and Worst Project Management Apps

February 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In “Global Web Apps Failing the World Market” I looked at a number of web tools that claimed to be universal but failed the market ...
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Great African LAN Party

February 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Some friends of mine in the Kampala, Uganda area have toyed with the idea of having a massively local, massively multi-player Video Game LAN party ...
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Appfricast 6

January 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Culture Wars. This episodes talks about Vodacom, A24 Media’s growing number of partners, Offline Gmail, Disruptive Journalism and more. Download or Stream the Podcast – M4A ...
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Obunaffu Bwa Yintanenti

January 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Abaatandikawo omukutu gwa ARPANET baalaba omukutu gwa yintanenti nga engeri y’okugaziyaamu empuliziganya wakati wa ebyuuma bi kali magezi. Wabula era tumanyi nti yintanenti nga bwetugyimanyi ...
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The Internet’s Achilees Heel

January 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The internet was envisioned by the creators of ARPANET to be a decentralized computing network for communication between terminals. Of course the internet as we ...
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How Datanet Serves Premium Internet to East Africa

July 26, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
When I arrived at FangFang Hotel in East Africa I was immediately surprised at how fast their internet was. I got to Uganda expecting ...
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