By Steve Song, on April 30th, 2009
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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 [...]
By Steve Song, on April 29th, 2009
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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 [...]
By Steve Song, on April 14th, 2009
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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 [...]
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