The recent Technology Salon "Will the new .Africa domain name have development impact?" represented for me an above average collision of minds over the matters of life and learning and the impact that domain ownership and the concerns for development bear on them.
One source of continuous frustration for ICT4D researchers is the glacial pace of academia. One has to submit papers 8 months in advance for conferences that are over a year away - like ICTD. Or it usually takes about 2 years minimum to get a paper published in a journal.
