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Will the Real Mobile Impact Please Stand Up

By Steve Song, on January 4th, 2011

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 [...] [...]

ICT Access and Usage in Africa

By Steve Song, on April 30th, 2009

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 rigorous, demand-side evidence of ICT [...] [...]

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