Rio, IGF, and getting IP right
About a year ago I attended the first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Athens. It was a huge techie jamboree bringing together...
Making sense on the ‘net… after the dot
Sitting here in the dimly lit ballroom of the LA Airport Hilton, I am every day more impressed by the challenges faced by ICANN, the...
Pop!Tech 2007 – A Blog’s eye view: A Conference Retrospective
So, you just got back from an exciting week at Pop!Tech 2007, tell me a bit about your expectations going in? Honestly, I wasn’t sure...
Northwoods Alchemy IV – Africa is looking up
Africa is looking up. Believe it. After years of being fed a constant diet of bad news about the continent, most Americans are all too...
Northwoods Alchemy III: Speed Kills, Slow Kills – Lost in Time in Camden, Maine
I’m rushing to try to put something down for a blog… Partly because we face big issues. Because we don’t have time to wait. But also...
Northwoods Alchemy II: Save the bees Andrew MackOctober 19th, 2007
Thursday morning’s session had an audacious title: “The Human Impact”. And, of course this immediately appealed to me… A veteran of many...
Northwoods Alchemy I: Give me a cell phone, or give me death! – Does Tomorrow belong to the c-Citize
It’s been a long time since Patrick Henry made his famous speech in Virginia calling for liberty or death, calling for democracy and...
Northwoods Alchemy
If you are a regular – or occasional – reader of Andy’s Global View (www.amglobal.blogspot.com), you’ll know that one of my goals is to...
Entrepreneurial Infrastructure
Incremental or not, what Africa needs is Entrepreneurial Infrastructure By Andrew Mack In his piece last month about “incremental...
In a world of .com and .org, why not .Africa?
During the march ICANN meetings in Lisbon I happened in on an interesting presentation. Around the hall sat a group of Africa’s true...
