Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa

Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard's Kennedy School, explores the implications of high speed internet for Africas capacity to expand the global market for access devices, creation of content, and development of markets.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Harvard
• University
• Africa
• Berkman
• Center
• Calestous
• Juma

[ananiasacts]

I wish the democratic nations would build the web tools to empower local communities of cell phone users to form strong local democracies by providing robust banking and commerce tools, and giving them the means to focus and concentrate their insight and political capital. No amount of diplomacy can have the impact of a well designed tool that allows ordinary folks in rural areas of poor nations to create honest and useful local infrastructure. It's the opportunity of a thousand lifetimes.