September 2008
6 posts
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What is MTN doing?
I was a little hesistant about doing this but then I reasoned: this is exactly what social media has an edge in. We might not have strong consumer protection laws in this country but word of mouth can make an impact. Let’s see how far this goes. For a while now, loading prepaid recharge cards on the MTN network has been hell (for lack of a better word). This has been ongoing for about a week...
Mobile Payments Security Issues
There’s no doubt that mobile phones are going to accelerate the adoption and use of the Internet in Africa for day to day activities. The question then is not if but when it will become mainstream.
If Internet usage and e-commerce will become widely adopted and utilized, then there are some speculative problems in the rather nascent mobile industry that will need to be tackled to ensure the...
Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards
Yesterday, I was having a discussion with a lecturer of mine and we happened to have discussed the Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards and what we could do to enter in for the competition. Interesting enough, today, I got a following from the twitter account of the DML themselves and I was thrilled about the coincidence.
Before I get to far, I should start by defining what Participatory...
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Sharing is its own reward
I recently read an blog post on Appfrica.net about how the sharing of knowledge can actually be a good thing. I could identify with everything that was mentioned in that article about developers having the fear that their work or idea might be stolen and proper attributions not made. While this is indeed what actually goes on, we will never see the level of development we desire and so desparately...
“Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man’s...”
