By Steve Song, on June 26th, 2009
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This the second installment in a series of posts in which I have the hubris to reflect upon What Google Should Do In Africa (#WGSDIA). There is some context for [...]
By Steve Song, on March 5th, 2008
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Meet Rael Lissoos, a economist turned geek entrepreneur. While I have been talking about Village Telcos, Rael has been out building one in Orange Farm, a township about an hour south of Johannesburg.
Rael’s company, Dabba.co.za, provides inexpensive voice and data services to residents, businesses, [...]
By Steve Song, on February 5th, 2008
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Having funded and watched and occasionally participated in the wireless hacker space in Africa for the last few years, I have the sense of “waiting for the next leap forward”. Wireless hackers have been successfully building cantennas, woktennas, and waterbottletennas, to name a few. [...]
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