Sunday, 29 July 2007

A High Tech Jamboree

7 kilometres of optic fibre at .0000009 millimetres in diameter

35 kilometers of copper wire

500 computers

300 telephones (internet phones, of course!!)

600 radios



It was fascinating at breakfast meeting up with the guy from Virgin Media who had installed all the ICT material for the Jamboree. Quite some achievement ... what would Baden Powell have thought one hundred years on!



He moved on before I had finished my breakfast. So, after taking in a brief glimpse at Luxemburg it was to Chief Emmanuel of Nigeria. He treated me to a wonderful explanation of the way Nigerian society works! He explained there are five kingdoms with what he described as 'natural

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