EFTA02586019.pdf

From: Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:22 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: Drone q Three growth economies in Africa (including the largest) want to work w Mara=to bring drones in some sort of exclusive deal. It's complicated and slightly different in each place and I get the technica=, localization and of course "spy and defense" issues. Each government is w=lling to/hopes to proceed eyes wide open but push drones for all sorts of l=st mile delivery challenges in addition to other needs and applications. I a=so know the best and top drone folks both hardware and software so that's a=so not really an issue other than finding right fit with one or more partne=s. Bigger question is about the air space. Do you think that low altitude airsp=ce (currently unregulated in Africa) is analogous to what spectrum was in t=e 1980s USA? At some point it will need regulation. And for sure the orderly roll out of a=disruptive technology that follows a government "plan" might benefit everyo=e. Otherwise it feels like a very messy bit of space. In almost a dozen countries I think we could push (and potentially as a resu=t even own or partly own) the air space or rights or something. Three heads of state and their respective ministers of defense want to go ah=ad today but I worry that equipping markets with drones will be messy unles= there are some rules. I also think that starting this in Africa will push innovation faster and fa=ther than anything in the developed world. Nigerians can reverse engineer a=d back anything for example. So should I think about the airspace or just jump into the "here's the drone= you guys figure in out". Do you understand what I am asking ? In Bangladesh now. Rainy season oh boy.=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.O.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>295431</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>140441891S</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> EFTA_R1_01765909 EFTA02586019  </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>421212</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01765910 EFTA02586020