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Kenya: turning radio links into broadband for the countryside | ft.com

Kenya: turning radio links into broadband for the countryside | ft.com | Internet Development | Scoop.it

5 February 2013 | Pupils at a school on the green slopes of Mount Kenya no longer have eyes for the blackboard. Instead they are transfixed by a $500 tablet.

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The Role Played by Technology in Africa's Amazing Rise | The Atlantic

The Role Played by Technology in Africa's Amazing Rise | The Atlantic | Internet Development | Scoop.it

Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World

Feb 25 2012, 8:01 AM ET 63 | G. Pascal Zachary


Ten years into the continent's quiet revolution, lessons for the developing world

....The advent of mobile telephones has brought instant communications to hundreds of millions of Africans, rich and poor, urban and rural. Africans are now on the move. Text messaging and digital money-transfer services, such as Safaricom's M-pesa in Kenya, have transformed ordinary life.


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