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Published on: Dec 15 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Kenya’s Mobile Data Price War Results: 116% Growth in Mobile Advertising
BuzzCity, a mobile media company, is charting the impact of the mobile data price war between Safaricom and Bharti Airtel. Buzz City serves mobile ads, and in the 3rd Quarter of 2010, it served 506 million ad impressions...
Published on: Dec 13 2010 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on 3-step framework to integrate ICTs into development
Editing video to promote social change
Building on my panel discussion around ICT and Millennium Development Goals, my perspective is less from a top down, big business, giant project point of view. In my work, I look at...
Ah the fabled Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos – the Silicon Valley of West Africa. Messy, unregulated, and wild, it was the digital mother that created Nigeria’s Internet powerhouse. Almost all of Nigeria’s,...
Recently, I was standing in the lobby of the Ministry of Education in Jordan. On one wall was the photograph and name of every Minister of Education that served the Education Ministry since its founding 89 years ago.
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Group will discuss the ongoing development of Google’s Android OS and apps for Int’l Dev
Published on: Dec 07 2010 by Ritse Erumi - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for Nov 24 – Dec 7, 2010
Welcome to the ICTworks bi-weekly ICT4D Retrospective, where we condense the last two weeks of news into a succinct list of links for your perusal. If you want your news to be featured, email them to ritse [at] ritseonline...
Recently in Ghana, the Minister of Communication, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, presented 230 laptops valued at $350,000.00 to the 230 members of parliament (MP), committees of the House and some parliamentary staff.
According to Joy...
Recently I helped review the use of information and communication technologies in the Jordanian public school system and I was intrigued to find that Facebook was blocked in both public and private elementary and secondary...
The Kenya ICT Board and Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) are about to launch a bold experiment in getting the tools of ICT into the hands of tomorrow’s leaders in Kenya. They’re...
mGESA mobile mapping tool
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I wrote about a mobile mapping tool called mGEOS a few months ago, mentioning that I’d probably get a chance to try it myself...
