November 2008 « Many Possibilities

GLO-1 Added to Undersea Cables

By Steve Song, on November 22nd, 2008

Based on a recent flurry of news items on the GLO-1 undersea cable, I have added it to the Africa Undersea Cables Map. Apparently, the cable is already laid as far as Nouakchott, Mauritania and promises to arrive at its destination of Lagos in March 2009. The news report, somewhat confusingly, describes the cable as [...] [...]

Digital Native Uprising

By Steve Song, on November 21st, 2008

There was a bit of a buzz in the news this week about Don Tapscott’s new book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World“. If you’re a bit of a podcast addict like me, there’s an audio interview with the author on the always-interesting CBC radio show Spark. The thesis of [...] [...]

Using Constraint to Design for Innovation

By Steve Song, on November 11th, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman has been writing about Innovating from Constraint in which he offers seven rules that “appear to help explain how (some) developing world innovation proceeds”. This post was riffed on beautifully by Design in Africa prompting Ethan to produce an extended dance mix version of his post. All of the above are well worth [...] [...]