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By Steve Song, on April 30th, 2009
  ICT Access and Usage in Africa In a couple of recent posts, I have mentioned the percentage of disposable income spent by Africans on mobile communication. While I have posted links to the research, I think it is worth singling out the work of Research ICT Africa. What is in desperately short supply in Africa is [...] By Steve Song, on April 29th, 2009
At the end of the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen says, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘well why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s [...] By Steve Song, on April 14th, 2009
Courtesy of the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society Report, here is a list of SMS charges in thirty-eight African countries. The costs are listed in U.S. dollars and in Purchasing Power Parity dollars. Interesting to note in the below that there is an order of magnitude difference between the cheapest and most expensive SMS in [...] |
 
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