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BBC on mobiles in Kenya: Revolutionizing the economy and local politics

January 9, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
bbc, economic development, kenya, mobile phones, mobileactive

An amazing article yet again on mobiles in Africa by the BBC.  Paul Mason in his two-part series writes about the economic impact of mobile phones, but more importantly, about how mobiles are transforming local politics.

"With one in three adults carrying a cellphone in Kenya, mobile telephony is having an economic and social impact whose is hard to grasp if you are used to living in a country with good roads, democracy and the internet. In five years the number of mobiles in Kenya has grown from one million to 6.5 million - while the number of landlines remains at about 300,000, mostly in government offices. I decided to make a journey through Kenya to gauge the impact on the ground: the plan was to go from Mombasa via Nairobi to Lake Victoria following the mobile network map - contrasting life on the network to life off it."

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Streaming Video From Your Mobile: When the Mobile Becomes a Television

March 23, 2008 | admin
file under:
bbc, citizen media, comvu, flixwagon, mobile media, mobile video, mtv, ngos, nonprofits, qik, streaming video

Streaming video from your mobile almost feels like magic. A video taken on your mobile phone appears, in real time, on the web and even allows users to interact with the mobile phone user through real-time chat functions. "It's immediate, it's there, and it's one click away," Flixwagon CEO Eran Hess told the BBC in a recent video interview. "It's very easy to do."

MobileActive tested two streaming video applications, Qik and Flixwagon, to see how they measured up for use by nonprofits and advocacy organizations that want to document and feature video content in real time. Lastly, we discuss how streaming video can be used for social impact.

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Mobile phone lifeline for world's poor

February 22, 2008 | Simon Pavitt
file under:
bbc, india, m-banking, zimbabwe

There's a great article about spread of mobile phones in India and Africa on the BBC News website.

For instance, it mentions how migrant Zimbabwean workers in South Africa send money back using M-banking and avoid having to pay bribes to border guards when they go home.



BBC wap use flourishing in Africa

August 17, 2006 | kiwanja
file under:
bbc, mobile, mobileactive, news, wap

According to the BBC this week, Africa (and in particular Nigeria) is dominating international mobile phone access to its website. In July the West African giant was responsible for a whopping 61% of international users. A further 19% were from South Africa.

Interestingly the large take up of BBC news via mobiles in Nigeria contrasts starkly with the relatively small number of users accessing the internet via PCs - hampered by slow and unreliable landlines.

Mobile content provision via WAP has huge potential and benefit, and was the foundation of my recent application to the Reuters Digital Vision Programme at Stanford. As more and more WAP-enabled handsets circumvent the globe, SMS may finally find itself with a serious challenger..!

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