The advantages of the national backbone optic fiber cable are well known to all of us, unfortunately, this Uganda project might join my black book of failed ICT projects(pun intended). i mentioned this about three years ago on i-network, before i abandoned that mailing list.
The issue of the cable not having sufficient capacity, is quite minor. Despite recent actions, where the Press jumped tables over this issue. a) Planning. Its very hard to maintain such a large process without clear planning. On a typical Monday, MTN will dig a road, on Tuesday NWSC, Wednesday WARID, etc whether there is an agency (read UNRA) taking care of this infrastructure properly can be left to anyone's imagination b) Cable capacity. According to Moore's law, computing power doubles every 18 months (actual law talks about transistors on an IC), now by the time, the good Chinese complete the work, they will be cables with 8 times faster speeds, and probably cheaper c) Competition. This project was awarded to Huawei, after it competed with itself. Reminds me of some political parties. d) QA & QC. Who is doing the doing this? d) the interesting part, is that MTN tried to block this project in parliament, since they had started a similar project. however, i will pray for this project, since divine intervention, might be the only method, that has not been tried to salvage this project good weekend -- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines.
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