The Mobile Minute: Explaining Egypt’s Internet Blackout, Bad News for…
Today’s Mobile Minute brings you coverage on how the Egyptian government shut down the country’s Internet and mobile services, work-arounds for communicating during a government-ordered Internet...
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IxDA and Designers as Explorers
I get culture shock every once in a while, and it’s not the normal type where you’re coming to a new country and everything is completely different than your own country. This is more subtle, I’m at a...
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Kenya’s Mobile & Internet, by the Numbers (Q4 2010)
If you’ve been wondering what the numbers look like for Kenya’s mobile and ISP space, look no further than the latest CCK Report (Communications Commission of Kenya). It’s one of the best documents...
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The Google Global Cache hits Kenya
In January I wrote about the way the Google Global Cache is affecting Uganda – how local web caching is completely changing the internet user experience for that country. We’ve known for a couple...
View ArticleCitizens in @ction: Collaboration, Participatory Democracy and Freedom of…
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View ArticleAre Mobile Phones Changing Social Networks? A Longitudinal Study Of Core…
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Infographic: Mobile and Internet in Tanzania
The iHub Research team has worked up an infographic on Tanzania to match their past ones on Kenya and Uganda . We’re looking at 50% mobile phone penetration in Tanzania, with about 22 million...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the International Telecommunications Union
We are interrupting our usual programming on MobileActive.org for an important message on the future of the opennness of the Internet. Civil society groups from around the world have signed on to an...
View ArticleInternet-based interventions for disordered gamblers: study protocol for a…
Background: Gambling disorders affect about one percent of adults. Effective treatments are available but only a small proportion of affected individuals will choose to attend formal treatment. As a...
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ISIF Asia Awards 2013 Open for Technology Programs
The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) is accepting nominations for the 2013 ISIF Asia Awards, to recognize five innovative projects that used the Internet as a social development tool to...
View ArticleO3b Satellite Internet (Finally) Launches
5 years ago I wrote about the news that Google had invested, along with others, in this new internet connectivity via medium-orbit satellites for the parts of the world that were hard to reach with...
View ArticleInternet filters and entry pages do not protect children from online alcohol...
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One in Three
One in three people around the world are connected to the internet. This is not enough. In a world of 7 billion people, 4.2 billion still can’t access the internet. 3.8 billion of whom live in emerging...
View ArticleMeasuring youth exposure to alcohol marketing on social networking sites:...
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View Article“Digital pandemics”: Lessons from the anti-vaccine movement
Guest blogger: Brittany Seymour, DDS, MPH During the 20th century alone, the world experienced a larger gain in life expectancy than in all the previously accumulated history of humankind. This triumph...
View Article5 Good Recent Reports on African Tech – 2014
I keep meaning to write blog posts on each of these reports on tech, most of them on Africa, but can’t seem to get it done. Instead, I’ll just post a link to each, a visual, and why I think it’s worth...
View ArticleA BRCK Journey
We’re about to ship our first orders of BRCKs next week, on July 17th. Tomorrow (Wed, July 9th) we have a launch event happening at Sarit Centre for our Nairobi friends and media, starting at 9am,...
View ArticleAn Undersea Cable History and Primer
There’s a great resource that Built Visible has just written about the history and power dynamics of the internet’s undersea cables. It’s well worth a read, if even to just get a snapshot view of the...
View ArticleGreat roads and a bit of engine trouble (day 1)
(Cross posted from the BRCK blog) I’m writing this blog post using my Mac, connected to a BRCK which is connected to a satellite internet connection using an Inmarsat iSavi device, somewhere about...
View ArticleKenya: Who Got Funded in 2014?
Which tech companies were funded in Kenya in 2014? I thought I’d compile a list of the ones I know of. Send me any that I might have missed. Early stage capital Angani – Public cloud computing provider...
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