[governance] US Ambassador Kramer's Remarks on the WCIT

[Lee W McKnight]

Re Africa mobiles, reaching 80% penetration Q1 2013 is an amazing accomplishment in reaching near universal service in a short time, even if there are still large areas with no coverage. Still, fact we are approaching a billion mobile subscribers in Africa doesn't get as much attention as it deserves imho.

And, the fact that Sub-Saharan Africa has presently the highest growth rate in the world is is also nice to see.  

Internet is not yet at that level of course, but... 
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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 7:12 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr; michael gurstein
Subject: Re: [governance] US Ambassador Kramer's Remarks on the WCIT

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> doption of mobile telephony hasn't been driven by the smartphone users as it
> has by a large number of poor people - manual laborers, fishermen,
> maidservants and such.  It gives them independence and access to information
> which helps them add far more value to their lifestyle than an executive is
> helped by his blackberry or ipad.


plus access to banking services/mobile money.

"How happy these Africans are, thanks to mobile and the Internet" is spot on.

Have you ever met any that are unhappy about it?  I have not, and I
was there for many years.

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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel


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