'mobile phone' Tag
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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 […]