Mobile Everywhere in Kampala
Kampala – April 6th, 2009 First impressions – I have just arrived in Uganda and can tell you that the presence of the mobile phone is felt and seen everywhere! Just some notes from my trip from the airport....
Ben White
I am a media professional with several years of international experience. I have worked on media projects in Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
I have a particular interest in the rise of internet and mobile tehnologies in emerging markets. This interest is an important part of my master's program at the University of Amsterdam.
http://mediaflip.wordpress.com/
Can African reporters equipped with smart phones help improve accountability and transparency in development aid?
Tomorrow Africa Interactive and the International Resource Center for Water and Sanitation will compete for the WeMedia GameChangers award. Here is an outline of my presentation. All comments, thoughts and ideas are welcome ! Africa Interactive is working to...
Research Project: ICT 4 Uganda
New media is coming to Africa. With the fastest growth rate of mobile telephony on the planet and huge investments in fiber optic cables competing with satellite technologies, investors are bringing broadband connections to the continent. Africa is on...
What will 2009 mean for Negroponte’s OLPC?
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Gun vs. OLPC Computer
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Did I just find a farmer from rural Africa on Twitter ?
I think this might be only the beginning. As we start to understand Twitter and its creative uses we will increasingly see the links and the relevance in parallel to what we see happening with SMS. And like SMS,...
Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half
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Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ’08
Picnic is Amsterdam’s new media event of the year. This is one of the few times when people come together to discuss developments, innovations and changes in the industry on this scale. As a result, this is also one...
Radio 2.0 – Using Innovative Technologies in the Effort to Connect the Unconnected
Web 2.0 for a Global Society ? As defined by Wikipedia, the term Web 2.0 “encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content.” Tim O’Reilly, often recognized as the first person to coin the...
Review: Technology and the Rural Youth – A Surprising Journey with a Sociologist Through Morocco
Author: Fatima Mernissi Original Text: 2004 Pages 240 Published in Italian and Dutch Stereotype 1: Changes are most seen in the central part of Morrocco than in the more rural regions....