His office, until a recent project change, was stocked with what he estimates was $100,000 worth of computer equipment, including high-speed T1 broadband Internet lines, a Bloomberg terminal flat-screen monitor, Web-conferencing equipment and a dedicated intranet connection to the headquarters of his employer, a hedge fund in Connecticut.
The country seems ready to back its ambition with money and policies.By 2012, for instance, Rwanda wants every child in the country between the ages of nine and 12, 1.3m children in all, to have a laptop, each with an internet or intranet connection to download free educational software and electronic books.
Jargon creep eventually produced "B2G," for Internet activities connecting businesses to government, and "B2E" for a business's internal, or intranet, connections to employees.
Patients could choose between a computer workstation in the study unit of the clinic or use a laptop in bed, which had a wireless connection to the intranet of the hospital.
But what do you do if your connection to a Web-hosted intranet is interrupted, or worse, if the intranet itself goes down?
"And a lot of times the answer is the intranet".
"With the intranet, I just type in a key word".
He entered "Top Secret Iran" into the intranet's search engine and sifted through the results.
North Koreans with computers at home can also sign up for the intranet service.
The battle for the intranet already looks crowded (another competitor is IBM's Lotus division).
