A caveat? A bit more than that…

I don’t blame the BBC, but if they’d had the opportunity to talk with people on the street, they would have known that the situation is far from being all goody-goody.

They didn’t say Nomad is the worst ISP (in Africa) & that no one uses Emtel 3G as Internet coz it’s expensive. Or that those call-centre slaves were in fact CSE graduates… :|

& our dear President couldn’t contain to taint it with the usual political mantra - I was the one who initiated it & everyone criticised it.

CyberTower-Island indeed! :P

(Took me 2h to download that 40MB video, when it was available - & the quality is AWESOMELY crap!)

Comment by carrotmadman6 — Friday, 16 May 2008 14:57 GMT #

WHY so much hate? Cheer up, it’s the week-end! :-)

Seriously, being in the know, I found the BBC Click story to be lacking. But, there was only so much they could fit in a 4-minute production, and it is better that they showed the good side rather than the bad.

On the other hand, the Fast:Track report was very good. It presented Mauritius as a destination where businessmen can travel to without fear of being disconnected; a plus for our tourism industry.

Eddy.

Comment by Eddy — Friday, 16 May 2008 16:29 GMT #

ah. quoted. again.

mauritius is as retarded as it allows itself to be, technologically or otherwise. I’d have hoped it didn’t need my help to have it pointed out but it seems it likes the taste of its foot in its mouth.

They didn’t say Nomad is the worst ISP (in Africa) & that no one uses Emtel 3G as Internet coz it’s expensive. Or that those call-centre slaves were in fact CSE graduates… :|

teh carrot, it speaks teh truth.

Can’t blame the BBC though. Except when the guy was flinging coral sand around and talking of silica, I lol’ed. Good thing that report was at the begining of the show, I wouldn’t have been able to wait the full 2 hours for it to load completely. only had to wait 20 minutes.

and concentrating on offering services to rich foreigners while locals languish in limbo with only lies of a rosy digital present and future to go on (throwing sipek off mountains)… well, some would say that this kind of policy encourages local resentment of foreigners, a conservationist sentiment or even having foreign tourists gang raped in broad daylight and all their possessions stripped.

but I won’t say that. it’s the weekend. everything is fine on weekends. yikee-kai-yay motherfucker asn the other guy said. etc. etc.

but seriously, or rather… not seriously. because I think that was the spirit in which you wrote your blog post (irony, sarcasm and stuff).

truth remains that the wealth is not being redistributed properly. aanddd much has been said already on how to fix that. so I’ll skip that bit.

note: in real life there is no catchy background music to add a feeling that something awesome is going on.

Comment by Ketwaroo D. Yaasir — Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:00 GMT #

THANK YOU for not starting a debate on the rich-poor divide, Yaasir. I have tired of trying to solve world problems all by myself, so I trust that more capable people will attend to that.

Serving foreigners seems to be what Mauritians do best. The same people waiting on tourists at Saint-Geran with a million “please”, “thank you”, and “sorry” will bump into pregnant women and children on the streets of Port-Louis without so much as a simple “pardon”. I think that Mauritians resent each other more than they do towards foreigners, an attitude bred from our colonial past and an unfortunate concession for the greater economic good.

Eddy.

Comment by Eddy — Wednesday, 21 May 2008 09:25 GMT #