Monthly Archives: March 2006

African Digerati

You only keep what you give away - sound crazy?
Let’s talk about Africa - stereotyped? Certainly, we can agree on this statement. Well, try this google. 277.000.000 results?
Let’s step back a minute a look at the broad strokes.
One of the qualities that developing nations must have is the ability to envision the future. Vision might [...]

New humanism?

Let’s face it - when it comes to technology, the average citizen is in neanderthal mode. That is why we get such neanderthalian politicians and businessmen.
McLuhan said that, ‘digital culture is the cognitive phase of electricity. Just as we took the muscular phase (heat, light and energy) for granted, many are taking this new phase [...]

Reaching Out to the world - Part 1

I have the honor of talking to a group of very sophisticated and energized people at a British Council sponsored conference. Reach Out encourages and enables open discussion between young people from Arab countries and the United Kingdom about issues raised by the United Nation’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The discussions are in [...]

Side effects of venture capital

Ready or not, the beleaguered and bloodied telecommunications industry must now analyze and assimilate a new species of predator in Jajah, a Luxembourg-based VoIP service provider that threatens everyone including Skype, a member of its own species.
Jajah made its official entry into the telecommunications jungle with the news that Sequoia Capital, a prominent venture capital [...]

Digital early-warning health system

TED Prize winner, Dr. Larry Brilliant: public health guru (he helped eradicate smallpox), visionary technologist (co-founded The Well, a legendary online community), activist, author, and founder of the Seva Foundation wants build a powerful new early-warning system to protect our world from some of its worst nightmares. The system is to be called INSTEDD (International [...]