Mobile Stats for Africa 2012

Latest statistics on mobile usage and adoption throughout Africa by Praekelt Foundation.  

On words and heart work

[This post was originally posted on Togethr.ca] I’m a words person. Cards are my favourite part of presents and I love receiving books with inscriptions on the front cover. On bad and good days, I go back to emails, posts or letters; and on really good or really bad days, phone calls are the way [...]

mHealth landscape in Tanzania

Before I left for Tanzania, I received a number of “Where?” / “Tasmania?” / “I had to Google Tanzania” remarks. I therefore benchmarked my location via Kenya, our much more familiar neighbouring country to the north. Kenya has iHub amongst a number of other prominent mobile initiatives and Tanzania? We’re not quite there but have [...]

On people that encourage and challenge

On people that encourage and challenge

Ruby Ku. Renjie Butalid. Nick Petten. These three are my go-to people. I know I’d be lucky to have one of them, but to have all three is a true blessing. On a day where I felt the heavy pressure of the negative energy, I felt drained. Negative attitudes are draining. There is a big [...]

2012

2012 is a great year to have a great year.