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Is the Internet Revolution Really Unprecedented? March 12, 2011
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa? (Book Review) March 2, 2011
Ants, Genes, and Robots February 26, 2011

What I Read

The Developmental Contribution from Mobile Phones Across the Agricultural Value Chain in Rural Africa « The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
September 20, 2011 | 18:00
The Developmental Contribution from Mobile Phones Across the Agricultural Value Chain in Rural Africa « The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries – Bjorn Furuholt and Edmund Matotay provide a study on the impacts of mobile telephony throughout the agricultural value chain in rural Tanzania. They identify five dimensions of mobile phone use, [...]
The Developmental Contribution from Mobile Phones Across the Agricultural Value Chain in Rural Africa « The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
September 20, 2011 | 18:00
The Developmental Contribution from Mobile Phones Across the Agricultural Value Chain in Rural Africa « The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries – Bjorn Furuholt and Edmund Matotay provide a study on the impacts of mobile telephony throughout the agricultural value chain in rural Tanzania. They identify five dimensions of mobile phone use, [...]
2011-07-15
July 18, 2011 | 06:00
Examining the Usage and Impact of Transformational M-Banking in Kenya « Internationalization, Design and Global Development – Olga Morawczynski analyzes mobile banking in the example of Kenya's M-Pesa. She finds that usage is impacted by several factos, including nationwide crisis (the 2007-08 post-election violence), seasonality (farm cycles increase demand for funds), and seasonal pricing in [...]
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