http://www.africansignals.com Broadcasting Technology News From Africa Fri, 25 May 2007 12:45:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/05/25/a-talk-with-mxit-director-darryn-foster/ Gavin Chait, Director of Research at Whythawk, has put together a great video on the size and potential value of South Africa's informal sector. This is actually just an intro video, the full video will be available for Whythawk Ratings clients. Take a moment to watch it: http://www.africansignals.com/2007/05/15/the-fortune-at-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid-south-africas-informal-sector/ Ruud Elmendorp is a Dutch video journalist in Africa. This video is about Computers for Schools in Kenya, an organization that refurbishes old computers from the West and uses them in Kenyan schools. There are English subtitles. You can download the video from his website, where you ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/05/14/19/ 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). powered by ODEO Interview with Ken Banks of ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/05/04/interviewing-the-maker-of-the-nigerian-sms-election-monitoring-system/ "Most of the people using phones are living in the developing world." Nathan Eagle's presentation on Africa and the mobile phone market at the LIFT Conference. Nathan is working on a project called EPROM, which stands for Entrepreneurial Program and Research on Mobiles. As referred to in Ethan Zuckerman's ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/05/03/fast-free-and-out-of-control/ 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 ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/04/23/a-talk-with-eric-osiakwan-of-afrispa/ 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 ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/04/13/an-intro-to-african-signals/ I'm in the middle of the first broadcast. Let me just say that getting all of the technology to work seemlessly can be difficult at times. I had wanted this channel to be primarily video, but it appears it will be a mixture of videocasting and podcasting, depending ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/04/11/technology-challenges/ African Signals is going to be a weekly videocast of technology news for Africa. I am currently working on the first episode, and will be contacting individuals for interviews. I'm always looking for new and interesting stories that showcase African ingenuity, technology stories and events that are upcoming. ... http://www.africansignals.com/2007/03/19/hello-world/