Nicholas Nesbitt's Blog – March 2010 Archive (2)

East Africa’s third fibre-optic cable arrives ahead of schedule

The East African Submarine System of EASSY, the last of three major fibre optic cables coming to East Africa, landed in Mombasa this week, two weeks ahead of schedule. This is the third cable to land in Kenya in the last six months and marks the start of a new level of connectivity for East-Africa.

It’s great news that EASSY has been installed… Continue

Added by Nicholas Nesbitt on March 24, 2010 at 4:07pm — 3 Comments

Kenyan ‘Kollaboration’

I’ve just returned from a whirlwind tour of the US with a quick breeze through London on my return. I did manage to fit a number of new business meetings in, but this trip had a slightly different focus. This time I got to visit my old stomping ground at Dartmouth College along with visits to Harvard, MIT and Boston University business schools. It was a lot of travelling around, but it was really worth it.

Since we started out in Kenya we’ve had a lot of interest both inside and… Continue

Added by Nicholas Nesbitt on March 12, 2010 at 8:40pm — No Comments