[kictanet] Laying fiber alongside Roads / Buildings under construction should be compulsory - in Africa!

[Bobs]

Which could have been avoided if the road contractors had included this element!

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> On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Philip Adar <philip.adar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We did NOFBI in Kenya (with the Government spending a couple of Billions of KES), but I am not sure if it is still working. 
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>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andrew Benson Greene <b.giftedfoundation at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Bob,
>> We in Sierra Leone have recently began to experience this as our country embarks massive fibre optics to help upgrade the ICT infrastructure and bring effective communication to the people. There is a little price being paid at the moment. The roads are being dug to help keep the fibre cables underground often causing inconvenience. The pleasant part is knowing that there is a high potential for infrastructural boom in the area of ICT and knowing fully well that access to ICT facilities will no longer be restricted and tenuous.
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew 
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>>> On Friday, December 6, 2013, Bob Omondi wrote:
>>> Dear Listers,
>>> 
>>> This is a subject that really troubles me.
>>> 
>>> Today, Africa is the destination for mega infrastructure projects especially in Roads and Building Construction. "Real Estate Boom" in now a common term in our continent and even bigger in Kenya.
>>> 
>>> But I still don't understand why we would spend a fortune to put up magnificent roads and buildings (of course sewer lines. water pipes and basic drainage along the roads are usually sorted out) and forget to lay fiber cables - the cheapest of the ingredients! In my opinion, this is a mistake that can be stopped!
>>> 
>>> What needs to be done to change this?
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Bob.
>> 
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>> Andrew Benson Greene
>> Founder and CEO
>> B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone
>> www.bgiftedfoundation.org
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