Musings from Bill
We’ve got another couple of days in Kenya, with some interviews lined up for future episodes of Digital Planet, but we finished off next week’s Connected Africa show last night.
Rory Cellan Jones is in Mombasa, on the coast, preparing his own reports, but I’ve been in Nairobi.
It’s been a remarkable few days, with some great people and even the odd giraffe
A nice hotel
And hard work for Gareth, writing the script
One of the nice things about appearing on Digital Planet is that we get to talk to cool people doing interesting things… like this
More on the topic on next week’s show.
(thanks, Michelle!)
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
Most weeks I am fortunate enough to hear about interesting and innovative developments in technology around the world as the in-house commentator for Digital Planet, the World Service technology programme presented by Gareth Mitchell.
We hear about solar-powered wifi in Brazil, computing in Nepal, driverless cars in the USA and silicon chips that can tell when their calculations have been affected by cosmic rays.
We get to interview interesting people like Feargal Sharkey, former Undertone and now a lobbyist for the music industry, author Steven Johnson and head of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker.
And we find out about new initiatives and projects that could shape the emerging networked world, like One Laptop per Child.
But having a worldwide audience doesn’t stop us being interested in developments closer to home, and last week reporter Anna Lacey went to Park House school in Newbury, where they have been experimenting with the use of mobile phones in school.