Archive for September, 2009
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
African Broadband
[As ever, this piece is on the BBC News website, where they called it 'How Broadband is Changing Africa', though I think the real message is that a broadband Africa will change the Internet...]
Norman Borlaug, whose work in Mexico and India led to the ‘green revolution’ in agricultural production, died last week and was widely [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
No Net Gains for Party Politics
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News technology pages, and Alan Connor kindly reminded me of his excellent analysis after the 2005 election that made a similar point.]
The next British General Election will almost certainly be called the first ‘real’ internet election, on the grounds that the ‘internet election’ of 2001 happened [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Making Digital Planet in Nairobi
We’ve got another couple of days in Kenya, with some interviews lined up for future episodes of Digital Planet, but we finished off next week’s Connected Africa show last night.
Listen!
Rory Cellan Jones is in Mombasa, on the coast, preparing his own reports, but I’ve been in Nairobi.
It’s been a remarkable few days, with some great [...]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
In Kenya for Digital Planet
One of the best things about working on Digital Planet is that I get the opportunity to visit places that I wouldn’t normally get to, and when I’m there I get to meet a lot of interesting people and talk about their work and their lives.
Yesterday I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to meet up with [...]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Giving Google Company in the Library
It’s been a busy week. My article on the Google Books settlement (which the BBC headlined as ‘Keeping Google out of Libraries‘, even though my point was that Google should not be the only company in the library, and my original title was ‘Keeping Google’s Tanks Off The Library Lawn’), provoked a fair amount of [...]
