Plugging the Leaky Bucket: A Technologist’s View of Ethio Telecom’s Proposed Privatization

Innovations as Catalysts for Growth Technological innovation is one of the fundamental instruments of growth to help developing countries lift themselves out of poverty. In the context of economic developments over recent decades, technological innovations draw exemplary inspirations from the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) Read more…

The PC Killed Time-Share Computing; Will Cloud Computing Bring It Back?

Overview If you’re old enough to recall PDP-11 minicomputers (even this term seem to be fading!) and similar multi-user computers running the Unix operating system – yes, famous at being multitasking multi-user operating system – you’ll no doubt remember a cluster of dumb terminals connected to a central computer for time-sharing of compute power. In those days (I knew the Read more…

Cloud Based Technologies Present New Paradigms for Technology Transfer

Background Overview Innovations based on scientific and technological knowledge have underpinned successful developments all over the world. These developments span from poverty-reduction efforts in developing countries to tackling some grand challenges in the industrialized world. Regardless of where the developmental efforts are, they all have a common theme of boosting Read more…