This Mobile Life: Cyriac Roeding's World Travels: Bhutan
This story was written by Rafat Ali.
Our dear friend Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at *CBS*, is on a world tour of about 10 countries in seven weeks. After leaving CBS (NYSE: CBS) earlier this year, he is on to the next new thing, and for inspiration-- and to unwind-- he is documenting the mobile lifestyle across the countries he is touring. His first "postcard" for us, from the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan...check out his pictures of the mobile lifestyle in the country, here on Flickr.
[by Cyriac Roeding] I'm sitting in an empty, pink painted room in a run-down house with a few desks in it, and a picture of the Bhutanese king on the wall. It is called "Internet Cafe," in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.
This in a country where cows sleep on the road and come home when they feel the need to, families run and inherit their own temples, many villages don't have electricity yet, and Gross National Happiness weighs more than Gross National Product...more on MocoNews.
By Rafat Ali