It is hard to believe that it’s months into 2006 already — it seems like 2005 was just a blip on a very large radar screen.

Last June, I was working with my colleagues at Communicopia.Net to support the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) recently launched telecentre.org initiative. At the time, our colleague Mark Surman was working hard to document a vision of a global network of telecentres (anything from an Internet café in Nairobi to an ICT training centre in India) that could share information freely and fluidly.  read more »

I was noting to a friend a few weeks ago that I’ll be making an announcement shortly about some changes in direction for Community Bandwidth and yours truly. The gist of the note was that I have renewed my commitment to being "agressively small" (thanks to Mark Surman for that phrase) and for Community Bandwidth that means that 2006 is all about getting smaller. Of course, this friend asked, "Getting smaller? How so? To what end?" And this is basically what I responded:  read more »