Life at a Distance

<p><b>In</b><b><i> Life at a Distance</i></b><b> Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network.</b> Branded as India's gift to the world and as a shining example of South-South cooperation the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project. Between 2009 and 2017 the network used satellite technology to connect hospitals across Africa with hospitals in India providing medical education and delivering health care for patients at a distance. Duclos shows how by accelerating the flow of expertise across continents the network also created connected enclaves at once commercial infrastructural and medical. <i>Life at a Distance</i> is the story of a project that Duclos suggests acted as a medium for speculation about the future--about medical markets the nation South-South relations and a new world order beyond Western-centric scripts.</p>