2008 « Many Possibilities

Wanted: Pirates on the High Seas of Agricultural Research

By Steve Song, on December 11th, 2008

Reprising a role in a previous life at Bellanet.org, I gave a presentation last week in Maputo to the Knowledge Sharing (KS) community within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Actually it started out that way but because the CGIAR’s Annual General Meeting is such a confluence of actors and agendas, the KM [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]