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Best dancers leave the floor

2. March 2011

Even the best dancer leaves the dance floor so an old Africa adage goes. In 2010, the curtain closed on some of the most popular shows in television history at least in my lifetime. The Oprah Winfrey Show just started the last season premiere while it is now official we won’t see Larry King Live [...]

A visitor in my own home: Observing Uganda’s 2011 Presidential elections

2. March 2011

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A Nigerian guy I met recently asked me if Idi Amin Dada is still the president of Uganda. Now being the Christian that I am, I forgave his ignorance. Over 30 years since Amin left Uganda, some people ask if he is still president. Anyway it shows me that my country has done little to [...]

Leadership celebration: Museveni’s rap, one of Uganda’s biggest exports

29. October 2010

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As I write this, I am listening to President Museveni’s now famous rap clip or is it song. I hardly understand what he is saying but music is a universal language. You don’t have to understand the words to enjoy the song otherwise the discotheques would be empty. The young revelers who flock these dancehalls [...]

Rich v. Poor Country ICT Statistics and Charts Online

18. October 2010

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Worldwide mobile, Internet and broadband data for 1998-2009 is now available online at: http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/tag/ict4d-statistics/ Based on ITU data, this provides a compiled and cleaned-up spreadsheet of data; charts comparing technology penetration levels in countries grouped by income; ‘digital gap’ charts comparing richest vs. poorest countries; and ‘digital lag’ data showing how many years behind the [...]