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Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: africa, All Things Open, broadband, Fellows Blogs, infrastructure, Steve Song
- Open Access, Africa, and Yochai Benkler
- Since the announcement of the EASSy undersea cable in 2005, Open Access has been a term of significant debate in the development of undersea cable initiatives and in the general strategic development... Read more – ‘Open Access, Africa, and Yochai Benkler’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
- Facebook Zero Helps Ideas Multiply at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- I am still frankly gobstopped by Facebook’s announcement. I vaguely caught the news of Facebook Zero but assumed it was just another mobile interface to Facebook. It was only when I read... Read more – ‘Facebook Zero Helps Ideas Multiply at the Bottom of the Pyramid’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: cdma, ecology, Fellows Blogs, fixed line, infrastructure, mobile, policy, Steve Song, Telecom Policy, Wifi
- The Death of Fixed Lines in Africa
- Zulu telephone wire basket image courtesy of Ethekwinigirl Today I want to push back a little (just a little) against the conventional wisdom that mobiles are the only communications infrastructure... Read more – ‘The Death of Fixed Lines in Africa’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Innovation, Isigidimi, Learning, mesh potato, meshpotato, Steve Song, SWUG, Village Telco
- Africa Burns for a Village Telco
- “Africa Burns for a Village Telco” is the subject line of an email sent to me from Bruce Strover. And really who could resist a subject line like that especially if the Village Telco... Read more – ‘Africa Burns for a Village Telco’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: All Things Open, Fellows Blogs, fellowship, mesh potato, shuttleworth foundation, Steve Song, Village Telco
- First vlog
- This is the first of a monthly series of short video blog (vlog) updates on some of the things I’m working on. This one is about where we are with the Mesh Potato. Steve Song – First... Read more – ‘First vlog’.