“The centre of gravity in African collaboration debate is at CCT Africa. The centre of gravity for collaboration, coordination in leading up to 2036, when we have two billion people, when we have wall-to-wall carpet of fibre from one ocean to the other from the Southern ocean in the south to the Atlantic ocean to the Indian ocean to the Red Sea to the Mediterranean wall to wall, when we have low earth orbit covering all of Africa when we have really from Cape Town to Cairo on land where fibre is almost in every city ... this is what we're busy with, this is the mission.”