Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Kenya nearing half point: 49% of all who use banking services, do so on mobile
There were 125 million total mobile payment transactions last year, meaning that across the active user base, they send on average 1.4 payments via phone per month, and the average amount of money sent per transaction is 29 dollars.
Not focusing on micropayments is a big mistake now.
Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web
Less than 4 percent of Africa’s population is connected to the Web; most subscribers are in North African countries and the republic of South Africa.
Africa is going mobile before going online.
One Porn Filter per Child
[After XOs were used in Nigeria to download porn, OLPC said that] the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.
How come they didn’t expect that?
Cell-Phone Market in Africa
The cover of Vanity Fair July 2007 with Ali and Obama reads “The fastest-growing cell-phone market in the world is Africa”.
Mobile Phones in Africa
The talk isn’t great, but some of the content is so.
Unfortunately there is only one chapter devoted to real-world scenarios in his book. He runs a blog though.
The “market myth” may be a reference to the work about the South Indian fisheries sector to be published on August.
Note that MTN has already signed up to sponsor the 2010 FIFA World Cup, in South Africa.
Learn more about DIS 2008.
Laptop-for-Food
if you’re talking about *true* misery, where the priority is food, then in the poorest parts of africa, cheap cell phones are much more used than computers, and then OLPC will be exchanged for food quickly and won’t last.
It may really happen.
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45682#234104
Africans and Arabs Want Brazil’s Know How on Open Source
“We believe that Brazil has had great progress in the sectors of computer technology and telecommunications. The country is currently developing a strategy that is very important for Tunisia and also for the other African and Arab countries, the freeware program.
