The Evolution of Solar Social Enterprise

I had a chance to sit down and chat with Jeremy Leggett last week at the Skoll World Forum.  Jeremy is the Chairman of SolarAid, a social enterprise that delivers solar solutions to rural Eastern and Southern Africa.  SolarAid is one of a number of social enterprises that have emerged in the last five or [...] [...]

Will the Real Mobile Impact Please Stand Up

Images courtesy of Stefan Magdalinski

I’ve just finished reading Jenny Aker and Isaac Mbiti’s Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa. This is an excellent paper and well worth the read. The authors have done a great job in tempering a generally positive view of mobile impact with some hard questions about evidence of the impact of mobile phones on [...] [...]

Africa and Television White Spaces

If you google “televisions white spaces”, you’ll see a small storm of news generated last week by the FCC’s finalising the rules for the use of television white spaces spectrum in the U.S. TV white spaces spectrum was first announced in Nov 2008 by the FCC but was bitterly protested broadcasters and wireless microphone manufacturers, [...] [...]