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Kenya nearing half point: 49% of all who use banking services, do so on mobile

Fernando Ribeiro — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:25:55 +0000

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.

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/02/kenya-nearing-half-point-49-of-all-who-use-banking-services-do-so-on-mobile.html

Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web

Fernando Ribeiro — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:56:18 +0000

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/business/yourmoney/22rwanda.html?ex=1342843200&en=9441eb2e521612de&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

One Porn Filter per Child

Fernando Ribeiro — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:14:40 +0000

[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?

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL19821905.html

Cell-Phone Market in Africa

Fernando Ribeiro — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:14:51 +0000

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

Fernando Ribeiro — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:33:00 +0000

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

Fernando Ribeiro — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:45:20 +0000

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

Fernando Ribeiro — Sat, 14 May 2005 02:17:00 +0000

“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.

http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/2421/49/