Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Connectivity

Had a very interesting presentation from our friend Matthew Liste from Goldman Sachs about connectivity. Wow – is this a complex area. The technology is somewhat foreign to me, and the players are new as well. As I think about how to solve various technology issues, the issues in low-bandwidth areas like Africa are particularly vexing. As with many things, WorldVision has taken a leadership role in this. They were spending $4MM globally on bandwidth, and projected that it would increase to $16MM in 3 yrs. That got the attention of senior management, and they spent a couple of years analyzing usage, and have created a centralized operations center to service their many offices. We may end up being able to leverage some of what they’ve done. Very exciting, but lots of work ahead to get something going.

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