Second, realising Africa's enormous potential requires an ever-greater commitment to good governance.
In Shirky's view, the internet is exciting precisely because it is the antidote to that passive viewing experience, a mechanism for luring people into participation through a series of ever-greater commitments.
And I threw myself into ever greater demonstrations of commitment – a trip to London to meet family, friends – that only frayed things further.
Now is the time to move forward with greater commitment than ever to ensuring that women and girls - and their sexual and reproductive health and rights - are at the center of U.S. policies at home and abroad.
Coe delivered a powerful speech to the Congress ahead of the vote in which he said: "There is no task in my life for which I've ever been better prepared, no job I've ever wanted to do more and with greater commitment".
Perhaps they even feel a greater commitment.
That imposes ever greater costs on businesses.
This has brought it ever greater influence.
Investors are taking an ever greater interest.
But Jagger is disinclined to articulate any greater commitment.
