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Pretty nice, Can you share some tech details and challenges

The author touches on a problematic issue that most developed nations tend to ignore.

Poverty and under development isn’t due to a lack of resources; it is merely the end result of a complete lack of responsible governance and institutions.

The absence of responsible governance and institutions cannot somehow be offset by directly interacting with individuals (peasants, out of work folks, women in need, etc.. ) who are basically desperate for any help right now, not long term solutions which may impact their nation as a whole.

It’s easier for NGOs to create all sorts of dependencies by handing over tools and practices to small communitities here and there and tell the world how incredibly successful they’ve been. As soon as the funds dry up or the particular NGO moves on to another project or country, all progress stops.

Fix the governance and build solid institutions that are capable of establishing and enforcing the rules of the road and the goals that need to be met and you’ll finally have a map to real and sustainable development.

I'm not sure this is a mere corporate holiday, it sounds like; in addition to company stuff (reviews/headcount) real long term strategic decisions get made/debated in these top 100 gatherings.

Do we know if there are really 100 attendees to this meeting ? If that's indeed the case, is it unusual to have that many people within a company capable of influencing things ? Any other examples in the corporate world ?

few a week

A Redis only system is very interesting but are you doing any kind of replication or clustering and would you recommend it as a main datastore for mission critical user data (accounts, profile, purchased...) ?

Will you be adding an IOS client soon ?

What kind of tool/service are you using to monitor those components and notify you when there is a problem?

Yahoo doesn't have what it takes to become a content company. Mayer and the management have not really defined what that even means to them. They are aggregators, they borrow data, they do not create it.

Unless Yahoo plans on becoming a actual Journalistic organization, like the New York Times,Bloomberg, ABCNews or USA Today they cannot claim to be a content company.

Yahoo needs to pick, Technology or Content. Apple, Google, Microsoft and even Facebook have already decided. They distribute a lot of content but they are firmly in the technology business and there isn't much confusion about that.

Real linux or not, putting out a mobile OS platform is a considerably ambitious and expensive enterprise. Let's not even address user adoption at this point.

A "geek" friendly phone will always conflict with the need for decent market adoption. Ubuntu on the desktop is "awesome" but according to current market adoption numbers, no one cares.

Any new mobile OS needs to at least match or exceed Android or WP 8 and demonstrate the capacity for breaking new technical grounds in (AI,voice recognition,location & commerce). It's a tall order. I applaud the folks at Jolia for trying but from the look of it, they're not there yet.

ITC Conversation's podcasts have had an enormous influence on my career. Started listening to them in grad school (CS Major).

In the early days IT Conversations was pretty focused on big Technology topics (software design, security...) with signature podcast from Steve McConnell (Code Complete) & of course the original Gillmor Gang.

Then, sadly, the network began covering too many things. It was no longer about anything in particular. In any case they did set the trend and a whole lot of folks did learn from them.

You built something that mattered!

Thanks Doug Kay