This week I’m attending the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Thanks to their kind invitation, I’ll be blogging this week about my experiences here. Having recently left my fellowship at the Shuttleworth Foundation and…
A number of people have asked for a chronological version of the African Undersea Cables map. Here’s one I made recently. Feel free to use, adapt, improve. You can download the full presentation (in OpenOffice…
In April of the last year, Indian telecoms giant Airtel bought Zain‘s mobile operations across 16 countries in Africa. But it was in Kenya that Airtel decided to launch its first competitive offensive in August…
In the far, far away land of Developmentia, the field of security in developing countries has a long and venerable history. Security for Development or S4D as the field has come to be known attracted…
I’ve just finished reading Jenny Aker and Isaac Mbiti’s Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa. This is an excellent paper and well worth the read. The authors have done a great job in tempering…