reflections on telecoms, innovation, and open source
Many Possibilities ranks 148 in Africa and 88 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 544, and 631 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 231 and 506 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Erik Hersman recently tweeted “I’d like to hear more on whether we should build SMS or internet services in Africa?” This had the serendipitous effect of breaking a bit of a blogger’s block for me. I think most would agree that the answer is not either/or but a
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Here is a first stab at putting together an index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. I found some ILO data on minimum wage that covers 24 African countries and a I found a couple more
Katrin Verclas and I and a few others have been kicking around the notion of Fair Mobile for some time now. The essence of Fair Mobile is the idea of developing some metrics for equitable, competitive mobile markets that deliver optimal value for money to mobile users, particularly
Blue Gum Tree - Knysna I see in the press yesterday that Safaricom have won an innovation award for their MPesa service from a UN agency. The Habitat Business Award for sustainable urbanization, which is organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), aims to recognize and publicize
This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» This third “What Google Should Do In Africa” post could be subtitled “Grow some balls”. Why, oh why, is it that Google, so unafraid to tackle telco and broadcast market behemoths in the United States,
This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» This the second installment in a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for this post in the
This entry is part of a series, What Google Should Do In Africa» This the first installment of a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for this post in the preface
This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa, that is to say what I think they ought to be doing outside of their core business of selling advertising. Why pick on Google? For a few reasons:
When I first started a map of planned African undersea cable initiatives in early 2008, I never dreamt that I might start running out of space to put cables on the map. Yet, there it is. Over 11 terabits/s of capacity coming to the continent if they all manifest
