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To: tech101 who wrote (18745)	1/5/2007 4:50:45 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Tech101. Thanks for posting this story at the time that you did. See my reply to your email on this matter. As I noted therein, some of the elements found in the story behind your post are among the primary reasons I've been as focused on Africa as I have been, as evidenced by the number of stories on the subject that I post here. For many reasons, both obvious and not so, I think we're about to see a slow-but-steady reversal in diaspora starting to take effect, at least with respect to certain parts of the continent. We shall see. While it may appear overly simplistic, or even naive, to suggest that the delivery of 21st Century optical services (on top of the widely successful wireless connectivity on many parts of the continent) will make a difference --it certainly has made a world of difference everywhere else it's been dropped off -- a lot, in my opinion, will actually depend on The Horn's and other regions' abilities to come to terms on projects like EASSy tinyurl.com , as much as it will on the ability of all governments on the continent to resolve their age old issues, both internally and cross-border. Those center on hunger and poverty, disease, economic upheavals, lack of governance and control, and in more cases than would be optimal, corruption, thuggery and often downright pettiness, by Western measures - which, in the case of pettiness, really isn't saying all that much. But money, when used to fuel innovation (and vice versa), can buy a lot. I sense that before long we're going to be finding out just how much of both the Chinese have to offer, before they deem that it is time to begin extracting, in kind. FAC