Every once in a while a company will rise that makes incredibly large waves on a simple idea. MXit is doing this right now with mobile phone-based chat. Started in South Africa in January 2005, MXit has grown exponentially to a userbase of 4 million (between 7-10k new signups each day).
I was able […]
Ken Banks and his FrontlineSMS system have been around for about 18 months. In February he was contacted by a group in Nigeria who wanted to use it for monitoring of the upcoming presidential elections from the grass roots level (see BBC story).
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Interview with Ken Banks of Kiwanja.net (mp3 file)
Ken isn’t just […]
A Talk with Eric Osiakwan of AfrISPA
23 Apr
Posted by Erik Hersman as ISP, interview, African Signals, Africa
Eric Osiakwan is an incredibly well-spoken advocate of change in African technology circles. He advocates an increased need for ISP’s to band together in Africa. Only by coming together as a united front will ISP’s begin to counter government corruption, overreach and monopolies.
He has started the African ISP Association (AfrISPA) and can be […]
An Intro to African Signals and the First Interview
13 Apr
Posted by Erik Hersman as Web, interview, African Signals, Internet, Mobile
Welcome to the first video cast and podcast of African Signals. I almost didn’t post the following clip, due in part to the fact that I realized giving a canned speech pretty much sucks (for me). In the end, it does explain why I’m doing it and I gets the message across. […]
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