<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Tony</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Indeed. The new investment story is what led me to this particular two year old story which is still relevant today. I was hoping to demonstrate a new mantra in business:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://t.sidekickopen16.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4XyGdvVd771d65jFwdW2BW4zb56dyR9f5rj0h602?t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mckinsey.com%2Findustries%2Fsocial-sector%2Four-insights%2Fdoing-well-by-doing-good-a-leaders-guide&si=6190904865718272&pi=f5c2b1a3-822e-4fc7-b144-1c25276a04e8">Doing well by doing good. </a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Worth a read and a thought. Too often we in business and government have lost our way by chasing the profit motive and power simply for the sake of it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">If the three core cogs of society - Public, Private and Civic work for the better good of society we would solve lots of Global Problems. That's why we members of KICTANet can inform a lot on how we can get things done better and without any vested interests. Most of the people on this list will never meet in their lifetime yet the ideas we share among each other, agree, agree to disagree in a civil manner is something we hope the world will emulate. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">And that's why Greg Wyler is my Hero for this December. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">One thing that caught my eye in this article was how the technology his company is building is already reducing internet costs by 90%!! Now that's huge. He's not only saying that Internet Access is a human right but he's doing something about it!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Happy Holidays to you all!</div><img src="http://t.sidekickopen16.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LNdFMd_KMKRbM7xW4Wzv6P2zlZNzW26tGP91k1H6H0?si=6190904865718272&pi=f5c2b1a3-822e-4fc7-b144-1c25276a04e8" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Tony White via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ali,<br>
<br>
This is an interesting in-depth article - but it's almost 2 years old!<br>
<br>
Just this week, however, Softbank (the Japanese company who just<br>
bought UK's ARM for 32 billion USD (the designers of most of the CPU<br>
chips in phones and embedded devices)) announced an investment of over<br>
1 billion USD in Wyler's company:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://spacenews.com/oneweb-gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-led-investment/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://spacenews.com/oneweb-<wbr>gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-<wbr>led-investment/</a><br>
<br>
Things are on track.  Can't wait :)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Tony<br>
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On 22/12/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br>
> Listers<br>
><br>
> Super interesting story about how one man is probably close to succeeding in<br>
> building a Global Internet Service Provider. Interestingly enough he comes<br>
> from the premise that Connectivity is a Human Right and is largely<br>
> responsible for helping Rwanda connect most of the country via Fibre.<br>
><br>
> In tech-conference speak, what Wyler’s been doing for the past dozen years<br>
> is connecting “the other 3 billion.” This is the half of the world’s<br>
> population that for various reasons is not online. Companies such as Google<br>
> and Facebook have received a lot of attention for their philanthropic plans<br>
> to bring the Internet to the developing world. Mark Zuckerberg, for example,<br>
> invited Time to follow him around rural India for a story about his<br>
> evolution as a philanthropist and business leader, though he provided few<br>
> specifics on what Facebook intends to do for India’s poor. And Elon Musk—he<br>
> of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and the Hyperloop—has received a wave of press, and<br>
> $1 billion in capital from Google and Fidelity—after unveiling his own space<br>
> Internet plan.<br>
><br>
> Read on:-<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-new-space-race-one-man-s-mission-to-build-a-galactic-internet-i58i2dp6" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/<wbr>news/features/2015-01-22/the-<wbr>new-space-race-one-man-s-<wbr>mission-to-build-a-galactic-<wbr>internet-i58i2dp6</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Ali Hussein<br>
> Principal<br>
> Hussein & Associates<br>
> +254 0713 601113<br>
><br>
> Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>
> Skype: abu-jomo<br>
> LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>alihkassim</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what<br>
> no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPad<br>
<br>
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</div></div>--<br>
Tony White<br>
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