Why is that Africa, of all places, is ‘mobile first,’ and how are mobile phones changing lives for everyone there?

If 2009 can be considered the year of the undersea fibre-optic cable, then 2010 can surely be dubbed “year of the mobile device”. Texting, m-Money, m-Health, the local creation of apps, and expansion by telecoms garnered a large share of attention. The coming year will undoubtedly see many of the …

Futures of Technology in Africa, a book recently authored by Jasper Grosskurth and published by STT Netherlands Centre of Technology Trends, comes after three years and hundreds of conversations on the subject of African technology. The results touch on the dynamic nature of African economies, business, infrastructure, mobile, energy, and …