Nation Building Starts with Telecom

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants some really smart folks to help it, the Central Command, the State Department and the Agency for International Development to build an information communications technology infrastructure for Afghanistan.

The work will be performed for the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, which works out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and DISA says it wants senior-level expertise to jump start a commercial communications industry in Afghanistan.

This includes a mess of policy and governance stuff as well as a regulatory framework that undoubtedly will require inflicting the Afghan government with reams of Power Point slides.