[Chapter-delegates] [isoc-advisory-council] Interview with Nii Quaynor on the BBC World Service

[Vint Cerf]

this is really a lovely touch - Nii deserves enormous recognition for  
all the years he has spent helping to spread Internet access in  
Africa. This was a great interview.

thanks for the pointer Mark!

v

On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Mark Thalhimer wrote:

> For Your Information:
>
> One of the ISOC staff, Karen Rose, heard the local rebroadcast of  
> the BBC
> World Service program in New Zealand, featuring an interview with Nii
> Quaynor, after his return to Ghana from the IETF in Vancouver, BC,  
> where he
> received the Internet Society's Jonathan B. Postel Service Award.
>
> While the BBC announcer has a slight error in his description of the
> Internet Society, it is overall a very good interview and I thought  
> you
> might want to listen to it.  Given the reach of the BBC World  
> Service and
> the global demographics of the people who listen to the program, we  
> can
> assume that this interview had very good distribution worldwide.
>
> Please see the URL below.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Folks -
>
> I heard on the radio yesterday an interview on the BBC World News
> Services (Radio) with Nii Quaynor.  This must have been done after he
> returned home from Vancouver, because they indicated he was in a radio
> station in Ghana for the interview.
>
> The article is at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7149788.stm
>
> The podcast is at:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ 
> digital_planet.shtml    --
> but they have a news report and program introduction before the actual
> interview -- so it sounds like you've got the wrong thing at first...
>
>
>
>
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