Archive for September, 2009
Consider this – when an economy fails, and people get hungry, what is the first thing they do? Well, in most cases they fall into either a war, or become refugees. In most cases a combination of both. When you have large numbers of potentially uneducated, poorly trained refugees entering your country or society, you have a burden on your own economy and infrastructure.
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Tags: developing countries, ict, savageau, UNCTAD, UNDP, US AID
Twitter Shows Its Real Value
Social media is touching all of our lives. Even in the early stages of social media development, it is hard to talk with any network or tech-savvy person without having a conversation that is fairly intelligent on the topic.
Filed under: Internet and Telecom | 4 Comments
Tags: networking, savageau, social media, twitter
More than 90% of startup companies around San Diego compensate the founders and senior staff with stock options, grants, or restricted stock” advises Mike Kinkelaar, Partner at Procopio, a San Diego Law Firm.
Filed under: Internet and Telecom, LA Life | 1 Comment
Tags: san diego, savageau, sdsic, startup company, sweat equity
“We cannot know what tomorrow holds on the Internet, except that it will be unexpected.” The new FCC Chairman, Juliius Genachowski, addressed a group of journalists and industry experts at the Brookings Institution on Sep 21st, focusing his discussion on reigniting the topic of network neutrality and “Preserving a Free and Open Internet.”
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Tags: fcc, genachowski, network neutrality, savageau
The FCC says US telephone companies have incurred a 26% increase in the cost of annual maintenance on traditional copper telephone lines over the past 5 years. So why would anybody find Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s announcement at a Goldman Sachs investor conference that “his company is simply no longer concerned with telephones that are connected with wires” a surprise?
Filed under: Internet and Telecom | 3 Comments
Tags: 4g, fios, john savageau, lte, telephone, verizon, wireless
If an individual can create a free email account in a matter of minutes, and a small business can create its entire financial system online in a couple minutes, then why must the government spend billions of dollars building (similar) systems that may not be sensitive in nature?
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Tags: cloud computing, john savageau, nasa ames, nebual, vivek kundra
Innovation is a catalyst for change in personal lives, education, how we work, and community life. All are components that may fill a fundamental requirement for continued economic development. In Ramallah there are many challenges to overcome in the journey from the current situation, to being in a competitive pool with other developing and modern countries.
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Tags: ict, john savageau, palestine, ramallah, telecommuting, telepresence
“While the Israeli tanks rolled through our neighborhood, we sat at a sidewalk café and continued to drink our coffee” commented a diner at Thursday night’s Ramadan feast. For the past four nights, most of the Palestinians I’ve met on the West Bank have shown a great enthusiasm in engaging me in conversations about Palestine, Ramallah, Israel, and the impression Americans have of the conflict and country.
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Tags: israel, john savageau, palestine, ramallah
“It’s not about the addressable market today, it is about building a future for my 8 year old daughter,” says Mohammed A, a Ramallah-based consultant in information and communications technology.
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Tags: ict, john savageau, palestine, ramallah
A Nice Evening Walk in Ramallah
Walking along the streets in Ramallah at night is quite an experience. A cross between dodging cars along tight mountain roads in Hong Kong, and avoiding open manhole covers on the sidewalks of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. If you fall into the rhythm, and keep yourself out of harm’s way, the sights, sounds, and climate of Ramallah in September make for a pleasant evening.
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Tags: john savageau, palestine, ramallah
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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