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It is High Noon for Netbooks
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How Can We Make Cloud Solutions Relevant in the Offline World?
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Why Senegal Internet Adoption Lags Behind Kenya, Nigeria, and Other African Nations
Looking across Africa, a discrepancy shows itself. Nigeria, with all its problems, has 30% of its population online. Kenya, once a tech backwater, has a 74% Internet...
Silicon Valley Technology Salon: How Can Every African Woman Have Access to Broadband?
We all know that broadband connectivity is an accelerant for social and economic development. And we know that in the developing world, women are the key investors...
The Best Mobile Data Collection System Exists: Choice is the Challenge
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Key Takeaways from the World Bank’s 2012 Maximizing Mobile Report
As of 2012, nearly three-quarters of the world’s population has access to a mobile phone. Soon it will be common knowledge that the developing world is more dependent...
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