By Steve Song, on May 19th, 2010
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Zulu telephone wire basket image courtesy of Ethekwinigirl
Today I want to push back a little (just a little) against the conventional wisdom that mobiles are the only communications infrastructure future for Africa. There is an implicit understanding in ICT4D work in [...]
By Steve Song, on April 8th, 2010
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The South American research network, DIRSI, have just published a report entitled “Tariffs and affordability gap of mobile telephony services in Latin America and the Caribbean” which profiles mobile affordability in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this post I contrast their approach with my [...]
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 [...]
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