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 March 12th, 2008
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The conventional wisdom in the ICT4D community is that people in developing countries spend a higher percentage of their income on communications than the global average. For South Africa, this notion became is widely accepted (I think) thanks to the Vodafone study on mobile [...]
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