mobile&mobile web
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Scaling Internet-Based Startups in African Markets – Afrinnovator
We’ve all heard of the idea that entrepreneurs are people who see a ‘gap’ in the market and then create a product or service to…
Looking North: Investigating Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship in North Africa
Much of our focus in the past has centered around Sub-Saharan Africa and in particularly key ‘hubs’ in the region – Nigeria in Western Africa,…
How To: Set Off In Mobile Advertising in Africa – “Please Call Me”, WAP, Metrics & More
It’s amazing what you can fit into 110 characters or less. I am constantly receiving please call me messages from my cousin who is a…
Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid
Niti Bhan is Founder at the Emerging Futures Lab. Niti integrates her multidisciplinary background in business, design and engineering with a global perspective to offer immediately…
Infographic: Mobile Web Africa 2012 Visualised including Statistics, Quotes and Insights
This past week, we covered Mobile Web Africa 2012 and we started coverage with 5 reasons to attend as well as live coverage that you can relive Day…
Visa gets serious: Let the Africa Mobile Payment Wars Begin
A student at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania was asked by a former lead engineer at paypal during a mentoring session almost…
Necessity & Invention: Africa’s story of mobile conquest & why utility beats ‘coolness’
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and indeed that could perfectly describe Africa where it comes to innovation particularly on mobile. Utility…
Esoko Interview: Mobile Technology & Agri-Business in Africa
Afrinnovator: In a nutshell, what is Esoko? Esoko: In essence, Esoko is an information channel that individuals, agri-businesses, governments and projects use to collect and send out market information…
Africa Mobile Web Pulse Check
Mobile phone technology has revolutionized the African continent in so many ways. The mobile phone has been for many an African the first real (or at the…