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Asia-Africa on Open Source (AAOS)
This week marks the beginning of the Asia-Africa Open Source Conference in Jakarta… Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their commitment to using Open Source...
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Internet Map of the World
It seems the world is moving away from a U.S. centric web… For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place – the globalization of the...
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African Tech 2008: Year in Review
Wow, It’s hard to believe that 2008 is coming to a close. What a year can change!? Obama won the U.S. Presidency; Zimbabwe, Somalia and Congo tragically spiraled deeper into lawlessness and a number of...
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This Week In Appfrica [Dec 7 – 14, 2008]
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this blog, head over the sponsor page for details...
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Charging 250 Times more in Africa than in India?
Is the African mobile more lucrative than India’s? Indian VAS (Value Added Service Provider) Companies are racing to tap emerging African and Middle Eastern Markets… African and Middle Eastern...
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India's Tata becomes Neotel's Largest Stakeholder
Indian telco Tata Communications has bought an additional 30 per cent stake in South African network operator, Neotel, to become the majority stakeholder in the company … The managing director and CEO...
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The Bottom 5%
The above map illustrates that by deleting all the countries that make up the bottom 5% of global GDP contributors we eliminate nearly 2.9 billion people, largely from Africa and South East Asia....
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New Chinese TV Channel Targets Middle East, North Africa
China’s influence in Africa is growing by the day. Just a few weeks ago, a local Chinese expatriate launched it’s first Africa published newspaper (in Botswana). Now the Chinese have launched a...
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Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot of that growth as North America and...
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A Vision of the Present
Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a lot like the present,...
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