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		<title>Helping Caribbean Entrepreneurs Get Down to Business</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/helping-caribbean-entrepreneurs-get-down-to-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/helping-caribbean-entrepreneurs-get-down-to-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist There’s plenty to love about Jamaica: the weather, the food, the music, the gorgeous beaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband Austerity: The Wrong Path at the Wrong Time</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/broadband-austerity-the-wrong-path-at-the-wrong-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/broadband-austerity-the-wrong-path-at-the-wrong-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gartner Hype Cycle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist Is broadband deployment progressing or regressing? Does it seem like broadband policy may be taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Renewal: A Tale of Two American Cities</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/urban-renewal-a-tale-of-two-american-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/urban-renewal-a-tale-of-two-american-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[columbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist For those who love irony, the story of Detroit is its epitome. Here’s a city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Start-up Tech Hubs in Africa</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/exploring-the-start-up-tech-hubs-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/exploring-the-start-up-tech-hubs-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Strickland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[start ups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zambia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Chrissy Martin, Guest Columnist Silicon Savannah. Maybe you&#8217;ve heard this term (maybe you&#8217;ve even read why it&#8217;s a <a title="Don't Call Africa's Tech Hub 'Silicon Savannah'" href="http://mashable.com/2013/03/26/nairobi-tech-hub/" target="_blank">misnomer</a> .)  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Mobile Banking Revolution in Tanzania</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/exploring-the-mobile-banking-revolution-in-tanzania/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/exploring-the-mobile-banking-revolution-in-tanzania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Strickland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M-Pesa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VNI-SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vodacom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist In most developed economies, people can be forgiven for taking banks for granted. After all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a City, and How Does it Get Smarter?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/what-is-a-city-and-how-does-it-get-smarter/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/what-is-a-city-and-how-does-it-get-smarter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=106474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The journey to smarter cities and communities has gained momentum in recent years, as <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20770518" target="_blank">a recent BBC article</a> highlights. I’d like to offer a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Traits of Intelligent Community Superstars</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/common-traits-of-intelligent-community-superstars/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/common-traits-of-intelligent-community-superstars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business clusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist Lou Zacharilla, co-founder of the <a href="http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/" target="_blank">Intelligent Community Forum</a> , has a foolproof way of identifying which cities are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Broadband Update: Progress and Prognostication</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/progress-and-prognostication-for-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/progress-and-prognostication-for-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gigabit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist The beginning of a new year is always time for taking stock and looking forward. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Broadband &#8211; the Blueprint for Progress in 2013</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/mobile-broadband-the-blueprint-for-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/mobile-broadband-the-blueprint-for-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Deans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connected Life Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global networked economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m very upbeat, regarding the current outlook for the Global Networked Economy in 2013. In particular, I see a tremendous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The RAPTOR SME Grant Scheme</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/the-raptor-sme-grant-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/the-raptor-sme-grant-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Foddering</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAPTOR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The investment in technology to support <a href="http://www.ciscolondon2012.co.uk" target="_blank">London 2012</a> was staggering. Now, post-Games, the challenge turns to keeping it alive; utilising what remains [...]]]></description>
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