"We coordinated everything," Mr. Banavar said.
"We started calling clients, and we were getting a lot of people saying 'ah yes, send me cooks, send me waiters.' We had a lot of demand but we didn't have the technology yet, so we had to coordinate everything manually.
"We had to coordinate everything," said that militia leader, Fawzi Bukatef, recalling the first phone call about the attack that he received from the mission's security team.
"You have to coordinate everything according to this single criterion.
This means they need tools to automate whatever can be automated and to coordinate everything that can't.
They would have to put in only a little money, he promised, and he would coordinate everything.
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have formed the East African Community to coordinate everything from customs to investment promotion to peacekeeping.
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with Jeff Leddy, chief executive of Hughes Telematics, who emphasized that the company is ready to start rolling out more sophisticated all-in-one control systems that coordinate everything from navigation to music.
In the 1990s and 2000s, a lot of countries, what was set up was a donor coordination framework and process at the country level that even joint country assistance strategies that were developed by the various donor organizations, basically, one tried to sort of coordinate everything that everybody was doing at the country level.
"It's a tough job to coordinate everything, and I sympathize with what they are going through," she says.
