Social Media in Africa, Part 2: Mobile Innovations - ReadWriteWeb - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Nov 11
  

  Soledad Romero
  • the fastest growing mobile market in the world
  • Amsterdam the social media technology conference PICNIC2008
  • innovations coming out of Africa
  • fast-growing mobile industry in Africa
  • There are very few telephone lines, but mobile penetration is higher than any other region in the world.
  • Instead, internet connectivity is distributed nearly entirely by  satellite
  • As useful as this is now, satellite connections have a bottleneck that naturally limits the number of users who can connect before the whole network slows down. This keeps prices unreasonably high while internet speeds tend to be unreasonably slow in comparison to the rest of the world.
  • tough conditions
  • challenges
  • . If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere."
  • Google to invest in O3B Networks
  • bring three billion people in the developing world
  • launching sixteen inexpensive, low-orbit satellites
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  • Africa has become the fastest growing mobile market in the world
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  • the fastest growing mobile market in the world
  • A broad look at some of the tech being produced for the mobile industry by the continent..
  • Micro-payments and Mobile Banking
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  • Mobile News Reporting
  • Because of the lack of basic infrastructure, getting information from one place to another quickly is often extremely difficult.
  • Mobile Application Developers

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• 24 Nov 08
  

  Estefania Suarez

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• 06 Nov 08
  

  Elizabeth Koh

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• 21 Oct 08
  

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  2008/10 ReadWriteWeb - the state of the fast-growing mobile industry in Africa. This is the second post in our series on Africa's Web

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  Rob Witte

  2008/10 ReadWriteWeb - the state of the fast-growing mobile industry in Africa. This is the second post in our series on Africa's Web

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• 20 Oct 08
  

  Christian Kreutz

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• 13 Oct 08
  

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  Part Two looks at mobile and connectivity innovations

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  Barbara Lindsey

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  • social media technology conference PICNIC2008
  • conference featured prolific social entrepreneurs and technology developers from around the world who offered insight into various projects from the African continent.
  • Africa is unique in that it seems to have bypassed the same era of community infrastructure building that has occurred in developed nations around the world.
  • most of the technologies that currently permeate Africa aren't terrestrial. There are very few telephone lines, but mobile penetration is higher than any other region in the world.
  • Instead, internet connectivity is distributed nearly entirely by satellite.
  • The developers who are coming up with solutions in the continent, the ones who are writing software or hacking hardware, are creating for some of the harshest environments and use-cases in the world. If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere."
  • Perhaps this thought is what motivated Google to invest in O3B Networks earlier this month. O3B Networks is an ambitious attempt to bring three billion people in the developing world (mainly in parts of Asia and Africa) online by launching sixteen inexpensive, low-orbit satellites. The potential benefits for Google are obvious. This is three billion new internet users, who will more than likely use Google to search, and who will potentially click-through Adsense links and use other Google products. An indicator that Google may be anticipating as much is their move into Africa last year. They've since opened offices and hired people in both South Africa and Kenya with plans to eventually operate out of all sub-Saharan African countries.
  • • At the end of 2007 there were over 280 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, representing a penetration rate of 30.4%
      
    • Africa has become the fastest growing mobile market in the world with mobile penetration in the region ranging from 30% to 100% from country to country.
      
    • Fastest growing markets are in Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt
  • • The Democratic Republic of Congo, population 60 million, has 10,000 fixed telephones but more than a million mobile phone subscribers.
      
    • In Chad, the fifth-least developed country, mobile phone usage jumped from 10,000 to 200,000 in three years.
  • Micro-payments and Mobile Banking
  • Mobile News Reporting

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• 07 Oct 08
  

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  • At the end of 2007 there were over 280 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, representing a penetration rate of 30.4%
  • Fastest growing markets are in Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt
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