By Steve Song, on April 9th, 2010

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Philip Auerswald recently took advantage of arch-villain Syndrome (from the Pixar movie The Incredibles) to paint a tongue-in-cheek picture of his relationship with Bill Easterly. Entertained and emboldened by this, I was reminded of my own insight from watching (more than once I’m afraid) [...]
By Steve Song, on February 3rd, 2010

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Erik Hersman recently tweeted “I’d like to hear more on whether we should build SMS or internet services in Africa?” This had the serendipitous effect of breaking a bit of a blogger’s block for me.
I think most would agree that the answer is not [...]
By Steve Song, on July 28th, 2009

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Blue Gum Tree – Knysna
I see in the press yesterday that Safaricom have won an innovation award for their MPesa service from a UN agency.
“The Habitat Business Award for sustainable urbanization, which is organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), aims to [...]
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