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Re: .africa gTLD



I fail to see what this has to do with the subject .africa gTLD.


Tierno S. Bah wrote:
> 
> Michael Dillon wrote:
> >
> >
> > He said "right there" not RIGHT. The term "right there" means "in that
> > place".
> >
> > It is essential that lots of work happens right there in Africa but the
> > people who shuttle back and forth often hit the jackpot when they obtain
> > investors for infrastructure projects. Imagine what the effect of a
> > transatlantic fibre bundle from the USA to West Africa, for instance.
> >
> 
> I don't know about "hitting the jackpot", but I do know about toiling
> hard
> to get through the maze and the pitfalls of raising capital for
> high-tech
> business in Africa. Scarce domestic savings compounded by the flight or
> only a trickling of foreign capital compel African entrepreneurs to look
> abroad. There they face even tougher challenges than their peers from
> elsewhere. Anyway, here is what we have been doing right there in
> Guinea,
> and soon elsewhere in Africa.
> The information below reflects our philosophy of private ownership of
> the
> pipe or communications backbone and its applications and services.
>