Articles by Michel Bezy
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
October 16
2012Good Cloud, Bad Cloud: Multinational ICT vendors are pushing services in Africa, why the solutions are in Africans’ hands
While global multinational companies are pushing private cloud computing services, the only viable solution for most enterprises in Africa, then, is the public cloud. The hope for Africa lies in the rapidly decreasing cost of broadband Internet and smaller, homegrown cloud service providers (CSPs) that are willing to invest in cloud data centers in Africa.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Friday
September 16
2011CMU’s New Campus in Rwanda, Aims to Expand ICT Knowledge, Worker Skills Across Africa
Today in Pittsburgh, the president of Carnegie Mellon University and the president of Rwanda will announce a major partnership between CMU and the Rwandan government to offer graduate ICT degrees. While one Center of Excellence can’t serve the entire continent, it can serve as model - just as ICT hubs inspired successful Silicon Valley startups.
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- Uncategorized
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Guest Articles
Monday
January 24
2011NextThought Monday: Why Africa is Open for Business
When I asked a group of Business School students if they’d be interested in doing business in Africa, very few raised their hands. Those who did thought their prospects were limited to NGOs or microfinance. But in the last decade, better governance and debt crisis resolution, among other factors, are radically improving the business climate.
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- Education
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Tuesday
December 7
2010One Laptop Per Child … But What “Laptop”?
The convergence of PCs and mobile phones, is well under way. It’s hard to believe that transformation began in earnest just three years ago when Apple unveiled the iPhone. Today, Africans are turning their late adoption of technology to their advantage by leapfrogging landlines and personal computers to mobile devices, and developers are following.
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- Technology
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Wednesday
October 27
2010The New Nomads and Cloud Computing in Africa
The Nomads of the Sahara are called the "children of the clouds" and in Africa, clouds announce the rain that brings hope. A new type of cloud is bringing hope for the next generation of African innovators and unleashing their creativity: Cloud computing.
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- Technology
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