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Ten government firms and 80 private sector companies, alongside international firms, are taking part in ICT exposition Comex 2021 inaugurated yesterday (May 30) in Muscat, Oman.
NODESQUAT !
This is such a glorious title that I cannot just politely ignore it.
What is more, it also describes with great precision and poignancy a recent story from Eastern Africa, more precisely from the country of Kenya.
Elephant phones
An international NGO by the name of World Communications for All is busy installing satellite and cellular phones (re-using the defunct Iridium network) all over Africa. These devices, unlike the more common portable telephones well-known (and well-hated) in the Western world, are solar-powered, pole-mounted, nearly indestructible devices. Looking like sturdy grey boxes with a speaker grille and an embedded microphones, the elephant telephones weather the hardest environment conditions. Tribal herdsmen use them to get information about the price of cattle in market towns, while farmers get early warnings about insect plagues. Some of them can be hooked up to a FAX unit, to receive weather satellite maps from fax-by-request public access ser
May 17, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: :All of us are responsible for the communications we make, for the information we share, for the control that we can exert over fake news by exposing it,” Pope Francis said on World Communications Day (papal message). “All of us are to be witnesses of the truth: to go, to see and to share.”
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