In response to Gassa, Gassa: <<For your information, I am very much abreast with modern technological evolusions taking place in the wireless world. My job is to guide management as well as government as to what strategy is best suited for our country in terms of technology, cost and benefits. Got it?>> Yes, we got it... alas, the fact that you are the chosen one to guide the management of GAMTEL and this medieval regime "as to what strategy is best suited for our country in terms of technology, cost and benefits," goes to show - to a greater degree - why everything in the Gambia today is going down the hill. Today, there are three simple words/phrases to describe the stuff of Gambian public life: the celebration and promotion of mediocrity; moral decay; and decline in the measure of all standards of public performances. The fact that you continue to push GAMTEL to what is possibly its abyss, is a clear manifestation of this sorry state of affairs. Even in spheres like your field of 'expertise' - IT, where Gambian taxpayers' hard won cash was used to bankroll your education - you fail to show increasing returns on that costly investment. Gassa, going by your recent exchanges with professionals like Yus et al - who continue to compete in the most competitive of job markets in the whole world and at the highest of levels of IT R&D without having to bootlick to get through every competitive day - when you couldn't tell the difference between 'analogue' and 'digital', you gave ample evidence that you are nothing but a Potemkin engineer of some sorts: all huff and puff but no substance to back it all up. The fact that you can be entrusted with such solemn and intellectually demanding tasks like planning and advising on a country's IT infrastructure and strategy, tells me that so long as this is case, we'll always have situations in Africa, especially in dear old Gambia, where the praise-singing blind will lead the competent two-eyed. And that has always been a recipe for backwardness and ultimately disaster. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~