Remember when we used to call the Internet the “World Wide Wait”? Sigh. The truth is that it isn’t really that Uganda as a whole doesn’t have access to the Internet but really that, depending on who your service provider is, and how much you are willing to pay, and where your geographic location is, [...]
Posts under ‘Ghana’
Pictures… of me!
Of course, I don’t have very many pictures of myself. You can only do so many arms-length ones before it starts feeling cheesy.
But! My friend Paul was here (you can see him in some of my pictures) and he takes much better photographs than me. Check out his photostream for [...]
Rockin' Rolling Blackouts
I’m sitting here in the semi-dark and I realized that I still haven’t blogged about one of the more salient aspects of my time here in Ghana. Okay well. –insert sheepish grin– i actually realized that ages ago when Paul arrived and mentioned that I could have at least warned him that we only have [...]
Staying Wired via Wireless
One of my (many) projects here was to set up GPRS for my multitude of smartphones. Out of the array I brought with me to Africa, I selected four to bring to Ghana, picking that number so I would have two and each of Paul and Rowena could use one. The finalists: my trusty personal [...]
African Healthcare Summit – GPS Foundation, DC
I recently (April 29, 2007) gave a talk to the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation (a group of Ghanaian doctors practicing in the US) at their annual African Healthcare Summit.
My slides are downloadable here (ppt, 10.5 MB). I gave an introduction to TIER, talking about our work using long distance WiFi (WiLDnet) for the Aravind [...]
