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Kenya is by far the most exciting, innovative mobile money market on earth. Below is an overview of some of the major and upcoming players.
[This is a guest post by Ben Lyon of Kopo Kopo, and recently of FrontlineSMS:Credit, who I consider to be one of the leading experts on mobile money, banking and payments in Africa. Kopo Kopo aims to make the integration of microfinance and mobile money as
Mobile developers 20FourLabs, a division of local internet portal 24.com, designed their Afridoctor application as an alternative information service for people who have limited access to healthcare, or who are out of range of a doctor at the time.
While it will fill a large gap in terms of availability of basic health information, and will help to educate and improve the lives of many people,
African entrepreneurs are driving a second technological revolution in Africa. Where ICT’s were once imported from abroad and artificially embedded as telecenters a new trend is underway.
Local talent are actively working to deconstruct technology in ways they can rebuild it with a purpose. Designing from within the context and for the context gives it meaning.
A growing network of investor
A new project dedicated to African media has seen the light of day. The TV channel Africanews24 will be launched following the success of the partner project Euronews24. The channel was presented on May 21 at the “Africa 53 countries, One continent” conference in Bologna.
It will be a pan African TV channel, based in Africa – rumours that it will be based out of Dakar or Accra have been circul
Just a week ago I was in Cape Town talking about how entrepreneurs in Africa are looking at the prepaid mobile phone market and are trying to solve for the cost structures for data provided by the mobile carriers. Who knew that internet giant Facebook would beat them to it?
This week Facebook launched 0.facebook.com, where they worked out deals with 50 mobile operators in 45 countries to eithe
Telecom Egypt, which early this week announced that it had assumed total control of its subsidiary TE Data, said the move would enhance the growth of the broadband industry in the North African country.
“We expect the importance of this segment to grow further going forward and, as such, have taken advantage of the opportunity to establish full ownership of the business,” Chief Executive Offic
Telecom liberalization in South Africa made possible the launch of NewTelco South Africa, a carrier-neutral co-location services provider, brought by Spescom in partnership with NewTelco GmbH.
The new company, set to launch its operation in the second quarter of 2010, offers an independent telecoms hub for local, regional and international carriers with a presence or looking to establish in So
