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The Dirt on Soil

The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) makes one wonder how people coped before it existed. Africa Soil offers an enormous abundance of peer-to-peer information and services, namely data and maps […]

March 23, 2012/by actualize

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Online resources to monitor Mali coup events (including YouTube video from state television)

Instead of a post on how Malians are using social media to promote the now-delayed April 29th, 2012 presidential elections, we turn to see how social media has been used […]

March 23, 2012/by actualize

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Orange Kenya needs $120m bailout

Telecom operator Orange Kenya has asked the government for a KES 10 billion ($120 million) bailout, news reports revealed on Wednesday. The move comes as the company continues to incur massive debts […]

March 23, 2012/by actualize

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GraphoGAME: ICT-Enabled Game is Improving Literacy in Low-Income Countries

Remember “Hooked on Phonics“? The famous infomercials from the 90’s that promised an educational video series could improve children’s reading scores through phonic-based learning methods? GraphoGAME, a digital-based phonics learning […]

March 23, 2012/by actualize

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Airtime based credit scoring: Can it drive innovative loan products for mobile money?

A customers’ pattern of airtime top ups is being used to determine the credit-worthiness of a prospective borrower and approve/deny loans. Will this technique facilitate the development of innovative micro-loans […]

March 23, 2012/by actualize

Mobile Money, Originally posted on the GBI Portal

Nigeria airline introduces e-payments

West Africa’s oldest aviation company Aero Contractors has introduced a mobile payment system on the Universal Message Object (U-MO) platform. U-MO is a mobile money service enabling users to make […]

March 22, 2012/by actualize

Agriculture, Environment, Environment, Natural Resources Management, Originally posted on the GBI Portal

Mobile Elephants

Save the Elephants is celebrated for its conservation work in Kenya, Congo, Mali, and South Africa. The four pillars of Save the Elephants are research, protection, grassroots, and education. Each […]

March 22, 2012/by actualize

Agriculture, Humanitarian Assistance, Originally posted on the GBI Portal

Geeks and primitive fieldworkers: a tale of two cultures

By Médecins Sans Frontières As a project manager for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders), a medical emergency humanitarian agency, I attended this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in […]

March 22, 2012/by actualize

Democracy & Governance, Originally posted on the GBI Portal

Does ‘openness’ enhance development?

Does ‘openness’ enhance development? This was the question explored in a packed Room 3 (and via livestream and Twitter) on the last day of the ICTD2012 Conference in Atlanta, GA. […]

March 22, 2012/by actualize

Connectivity, Originally posted on the GBI Portal

A quick look at Moroccan Internet stats

The Oxford Business Group published an economic update on Morroco which, not surprisingly, consists entirely of of telecommunications growth metrics. These days, mobile growth is nearly synonymous with overall economic […]

March 22, 2012/by actualize

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