Conference finishing

Gave my presentation today. Good panel, with people representing two government ministries, three conservation groups, and two comms firms (including me for CGNET).

Also had an interesting talk over breakfast with a conservationist who was honored this week for negotiating a deal preserving 500,000 hectares in Equatorial Guinea. Turns out they're training local hunters to be conservation agents in a series of small training colleges along the equator in the new park. And they're planning to collect climate change data along this line, using data loggers that the agents would visit periodically to "harvest" the data. We talked about rBgan satellite units as the best technology for relaying that data to scientists on the Internet. He'd also like larger VSAT units eventually, so that he could relay online courses from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America to the agents as they train. (Unlike most other countries in Africa, Spanish is spoken in Equatorial Guinea.)

Got a tour arranged for tomorrow with a visit to a lemur national park. Looking forward to getting out of town, and then heading home.