links for 2009-02-16
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Photos of the SEACOM cable landing station in Mombassa
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The new head of GlaxoSmithKline, Andrew Witty, announces pricing and IP changes likely to benefit the developing world and shake up the world of global pharma. Looks like very good news if he follows through on promises.
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A somewhat Malthusian analysis of world food security… but some very helpful thinking about the idea of "peak water", an idea that's at least as scary as peak oil.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
[...] are optimistic that 2009 will see the first new fibre coming online for both west and east Africa. Ethan Zuckerman recently linked to the first glimpses of Kenya’s landing station for the widely anticipated [...]