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Reconciling Open Data and Privacy 17 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Digital rights advocates have a hard time these days because the ability to manifest things online and the growth of online data have brought two “rights” into conflict. On one hand transparency and ...
Why Bill Gates is Wrong About Project Loon 11 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
In a recent interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Bill Gates took issue with long time competitor Google and their plans to create an alternative communication infrastructure using balloons (Project ...
Why Can’t Anyone Agree on Spectrum? 2 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Africa and Spectrum 2.0 Electromagnetic spectrum is the crude oil of last-mile connectivity, especially in Africa where more traditional kinds of last-mile com...
White Spaces in Africa – A Tale of Two Trials 29 Jun 2013 | 12:36 am
I’ve been thinking this week about the similarities and differences among the various TV White Spaces (TVWS) pilots that are currently underway in Africa, in particular about Kenya and South Africa, m...
The Open Data Cart and Twin Horses of Accountability and Innovation 19 Jun 2013 | 11:22 pm
Let me start by saying that the ideals of the Open Data movement: transparency; accountability; and, citizen innovation, are ones that I hold near to my heart. Further, I admire and respect many of t...
Prism – A Wake-up Call for South Africa? 12 Jun 2013 | 09:18 pm
Richard Poplak wrote a great article earlier today in the Daily Maverick about how the balance between what we can know about government versus what they can know about us has gotten “completely out o...
Spectrum and Development 11 Jun 2013 | 07:22 pm
The following is a chapter I submitted to an upcoming collection of essays on Television White Spaces spectrum being put together by the Wireless Laboratory of the International Centre for Theoretical...
Television White Spaces Spectrum in Africa The Story So Far in 2013 5 Jun 2013 | 06:34 pm
Last week I attended an event in Dakar entitled the TV White Spaces Africa Forum 2013. It was an event organised and largely sponsored by Google in partnership with a number of other organisations in...
What Google Should Do In Africa - Launch a Digital Television Station 2 Apr 2013 | 06:43 pm
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series What Google Should Do in Africa - Part 2Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted t...
Right Openness If You Meet the Open Guru on the Road, Kill Him 18 Mar 2013 | 08:53 pm
Let me start by saying how much I love Open Source software, peer production, the tide that raises all ships, Wikipedia, all things “open”. It is part of how I define myself. I love what happens when ...
