'africa' Tag
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Electrifying Africa
January 28, 2024I found this clip about bringing electricity to remote parts of Africa inspiring and thought that you might too. It is an extract from an upcoming film by Bitcoin Shooter.
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Mobile ingenuity in Africa
January 30, 2011This week’s Economist features another report on the innovation spurred by mobile phones in developing countries, a theme readers of my blog will know is close to my heart. The ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. Take mPedigree, a mobile service launched last year enabling consumers to text serial numbers of medications to a central […]
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Mobile internet potential in Africa
May 19, 2010Today’s Wall Street Journal Europe cites Google’s recent investments in sub-saharan Africa (Google’s keyword for Africa: growth). Google aims to encourage adoption of its search, mapping, and mobile phone technologies in the region, attracted by the high growth-potential in a continent of 1 billion people. Broadband internet penetration in sub-Saharan Africa remains incredibly low today. […]
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Another mobile phone donation drive
March 5, 2010My wife and I recently spent a week in Eritrea for a combination of holiday and humanitarian project. As some of you know, we try to escape once a year to sub-saharan Africa for one of our few hobbies that genuinely impacts in a deeply transformational way human lives. Our project, AfriqueConnect, began with a […]