A Series of Tubes #89: Project Toto in Toto
July 3rd, 2009For various reasons, but most of all because a NAS box died and took up far too much of my week, I lacked time to line up multiple Tubes interviews this week.
However, please indulge me: since Tubes regular Stigherrian is in Tanzania, and since “geek aid” is a topic that interests me, Tubes takes up the discussion of Project Toto, which Stil is conducting on behalf of Action Aid.
So, if you want to hear about hair-raising taxi rides across Zanzibar, gold mining and environmental remediation, really really cheap SMS, and how Tanzania’s network affects a geek’s Internet expectations, here is Project Toto in Toto.
One word of warning: calling Tanzania involves a game of count-the-codec: there’s Stil’s mobile, followed by a satellite link (I edited out the delays), followed by the PSTN and finally an Internode VoIP service at my end. Some quality issues may be expected.
