"Exterminate all the Brutes"

Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 The Story of From Kamuzu then Bingu

Public Lecture Pt01 Preamble

Public Lecture Pt02 The Yoke of Colonialism

Public Lecture Pt03 Political Independence

Public Lecture Pt04 Sovereignty

Public Lecture Pt05 Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Public Lecture Pt06 Governance

Public Lecture Pt07 Policy Proposals

Public Lecture Pt08 Governing Malawi

Public Lecture Pt09 Honest Government

Public Lecture Pt10 Forex Problems

Public Lecture Pt11 Zero Deficit Budget

Public Lecture Pt12 Fuel Problems

Public Lecture Pt13 Energy Supply

Public Lecture Pt14 Conclusion

Public Lecture Pt16 Panelists Closing Remarks

Public Lecture Pt17 Bingu Closing Remarks

Source: Malawi, the warm heart of Africa

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Look, please don’t get me wrong. But sometimes I feel like disappointed, cause I am not the person who likes to push and force things, but I like to see projects running with a certain automotive flow.

What I am strongly hoping and wishing is to establish and feed an autonomous and independent ICT movement which could compete with western and international standards. But as long as ICT donations do not turn into self deployment, I do not have any interest in feeding neo-colonial development aid and “begging culture”.I am sure you understand my point. It does not come with anger or frustration, but the intention to kick your University towards a paradigm shift which should lead to a thinking and understanding of independence and freedom.

“Anthu Ozindikira amagwirisa ntchito Free Software” (Self thinking humans use Software Libre)
The world is shifting and the political and commercial interest of western countries into Africa are trying to establish neo-imperial dependencies, which are deadly for African cultures.

I don’t like the role of the Imperialist Colonel Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s story “Heart of darkness”. I want you, Poly and KCN to show that you can do it on your own. And don’t need the doctrine of western economies. This has not yet happened to a satisfiable extent, I think.

Maybe you can show and prove what Poly is doing with the gained knowledge and report how far the ICT dept. is working on research in the field of innovative ICT solutions?

Take care & all the best, Akulu-Akulu Alex

Christian Imhorst made an interview with me for the online-magazine “Freies Magazin”. The Interview is only available in german Language.

A Malawian youngster has built his own windmill generator. On a Blog the youngster wants to finance his secondary school with the story.


Boingboing as well as Soyapi blogged about it.

After demand I sould like to put the pint master of the shirts on the blog, because there is only a small quantity of shirt that have been printed. Feel free to download the master for the front and the backside of the shirt. CreativeCommons-ShareAlike 3.0 as usual.
P.S. “Anthu Ozindikira amagwirisa ntchito GNU/Linux Software” means “thinking human beeings are using GNU/Linux Software”.

The Administration of the State of Zurich in Switzerland still uses the proprietary xls, doc etc. formats of the MS Office Suite. That’s why each an every worker of the state of Zurich has to write its timetable into a table of such a proprietary file. Today while transfoming my timetable.xls file into a ODF (Open Document Format) file I coincidentally found out that the timetable with its calculations and algorithms still works perfect in Openoffice. And it also does in Neo Office (on a Mac OS X). Further I noticed, that the file shrunk by 70%, although the content of the file was exactly the same. This means that a conversion of a xls file into the odf format cleans the file and keeps it neat. If the administration of the state of Zurich would switch to the ISO certified ODF Format we could economise 70% of our storage Servers, that could be used for example for another Free Software project in Malawi. 🙂

As long as switzerland keeps the banking secrecy and refuses it’s humanitary tradition the african rulers will keep their money at the Paradeplatz in Zurich and the World Economic Forum (WEF) will take place in Switzerland. While the so called “very important person” will meet this week in Davos i will run my attention on the World Social Forum (WSF), that is taking place now in Nairobi.

Past Wensday, the 17th of january 2007 I presented together with Nathalie Bissig the Malawi project at the dept. of new media studies. At the “day of the open doors” after my presentation there were Urs Hodel presenting his project “News Jockey” and Domagoj Smoljo together with Carmen Weisskopf their project Projekt Bitnik.

The official 23C3 recordings have been released. The Server is available at dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de. We mirrored the server and its available at mirror.hgkz.ch (http, ftp, rsync). The recording of my talk (#1638) can be found here: #1638 Freie Software – Eine Chance für Afrika? (in german).
I also uploaded the talk in written (german text).

Nathalie Bissig has set up her own Weblog where she releases fotos and drawings of Malawi and of the 23C3.

Ramon Cahenzli has recorded the talk, that I held this morning at the 23C3 in Berlin. The Film can be downloaded at this URL (The talk is held in German Language). Thank you, Ramon 🙂

The audio layer of the file is corrupt. A file in better quality will be put online asap.