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 June 19th, 2009

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This is an introduction to a series of posts on what I think Google ought to be doing in Africa, that is to say what I think they ought to be [...]
By Steve Song, on March 18th, 2009

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I am getting quite excited about the upcoming South African Broadband Forum next week. Inspired by the coalition that emerged in the United States to get broadband infrastructure investment on the political agenda in the run-up to the U.S. election, the Association for Progressive Communications, [...]
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