Guest Columnist: Downloading the Future: IP In the Digital Age
Earlier this summer I spoke to a group of young telecom professionals from around the world at the United States Telecommunications...
World Cup Offers Lessons for ICANN
Like the best soccer teams, ICANN needs to work faster and have clearly defined roles for its members. While I spent 10 days in...
Africa’s ICT Wave reaches San Francisco Bay
About three weeks ago, I sat in a conference hall in San Francisco and listened as President Paul Kagame of Rwanda addressed a group of...
Guest Columnist: Can A Ball Change the world? Yes… it can
Sports today are nearly everyone’s global obsession, but did you also know that they are also a new trend in international development?...
On Africa’s IT compass, all arrows point to Rwanda
Rwanda?! There it was again, the same puzzled look – a combination of concern and disbelief –when I told a colleague that I’d been...
Wimax – and the Path to Peace – in Uganda
Not long ago a friend of mine was sitting in an internet café in Gulu, Northern Uganda, busily typing away… and suddenly in mid-email,...