Africa, Innovation, and The Incredibles

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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) [...]

Mobile Operators and Blue Gum Trees

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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 [...]

Nathan and the Mobile Operators

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Imagine an alternate reality.  You’re an innovative start-up like Twitter or perhaps one of the many “adjacent possible” enterprises that Twitter has spawned.  You’ve designed your new service and are ready to take over the world.   All you need to do now is negotiate access [...]