Mark Shuttleworth
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"Mark Richard Shuttleworth" is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist who became the first citizen of an independent African country to travel to space. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2013, provides leadership for the Ubuntu (operating system)/Ubuntu operating system. He currently lives on the Isle of Man and holds multiple citizenship/dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom.

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In the early days of the DCC I preferred to let the proponents do their thing and then see how it all worked out in the end. Now we are pretty close to the end.

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.