I recently found a very interesting article by Kevin Randall from Fast Company “The Boob-Tube, Not YouTube, Is Transforming the World”. This is a good opportunity to clarify a bit where the Web Foundation stands in that discussion. In few words, the article is about the power and impact of the Web on social and [...] Read More

A last post about this Africa trip, I swear! First of all, for those who are interested in media (video, photo) I downloaded lots of video and pictures i took, plus links to some materials I collected from others. All these resources are available on a page on my own personal site. We are working to [...] Read More

November 27 2009: Last day of the trip started November 12! This day was not part of the professional investigations, but more like a day-off. As flights to Europe are leaving in the evening, we had the day to come back to Entebbe and fly back home, sweet home! Being in Bwindi, it would have [...] Read More

November 26 2009: the Fourth day! For those who are starting to be bored by the journey of the Web Foundation in East Africa, don’t worry, this is almost the end ! This day was a second day dedicated to field visit. Leaving Bushenyi early in the day, as usual, at 8:00 we headed to Queen [...] Read More

November 25 2009: Third day, beginning of the field visit. As always, heavy day ! we left Kampala at 7:30am en route to Bushenyi, to meet with Eric Cantor, and visit Grameen Foundation AppLab . Normal driving time is 5 hours… with car failure, water leaks… more than 7 hours! Fortunately, Uganda is a [...] Read More

November 24 2009: The second day in Uganda was supposed to be a bit lighter… but it was not really! We started with a meeting with the Prime Minister at 8:30. Quite interesting. Like in Kenya, there is a huge expectation from the fiber optic being deployed. Like in Kenya too, Tim promoted transparency, and [...] Read More

November 23 2009: Our first day in Uganda was quite heavy. We started with a live radio interview for Tim at Sanyu FM at 7:45am! (thanks Reinier for the link to the full interview!). Sanuy FM has a great view over Kampala because it is at the sixth floor of a high building. This is [...] Read More

After these packed three days of meeting in Kenya, we had a free half-day on Sunday morning, enabling us to visit the Nairobi National Park where we met hundreds of beautiful zebras, hundreds of magnificent giraffes, a rhinoceros, and few other interesting animals. Quite a nice break before moving to five more days in Uganda. However, [...] Read More

This is second post about Kenya, focused on the content of our meetings. As mentioned in my previous post, we met government representatives, NGOs/civil society organization, industry leaders and developers networks. About government, we had 3 different meetings with ministers and parliamentarians. There were some commonalities among these discussions. First of all, it was impressive for [...] Read More