Tag Archives: mobile technology

Technology Leapfrogs

By nchenga | Published: January 20, 2010

I like this quote from Hacktivate: We need to stop underestimating people. Don’t expect Africans to be content with boring old SMS and voice for long. Smartphones, droids and even iphones are much higher up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs than we realize, especially if nobody around owns a computers, your schools suck, and the government controls [...]

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SMS for Rural Health Service in Malawi

By nchenga | Published: December 5, 2008

Before I rush into my busy day: CNN has published an article on Josh Nesbit’s project at St. George’s in Namitete, Malawi. I wrote about the project here and talked about it at BlogCampSwitzerland.

Posted in General, Malawi, africa, tech | Also tagged cnn on malawi, frontlinesms, joshnesbit, mobile phonnes, rural health service, sms, text messages | Leave a comment

Appfrica Interview on MTN Uganda

By nchenga | Published: October 7, 2008

Just a quick note to point to an interesting interview with an official of MTN Uganda at: Appfrica: Interview With MTN’s Erik van Veen – Part 1 These points caught my eye: (…) revenues per user, are very low in Africa by international standards, and require a low cost operating model if the Operator is to be profitable. [...]

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My BlogCamp Switzerland Talk

By nchenga | Published: August 29, 2008

As announced on Twitter, I presented a talk on mobile technology in Malawi at today’s BlogCamp in Zurich to share what I’m learning from the African blogs and tweets that I follow on a regular basis. I started my talk with a short intro on Chiperoni (I am a bridge blogger somewhere between Basel and Blantyre) [...]

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Mobile Communication for Rural Health Project

By nchenga | Published: August 23, 2008

I stumbled across this blog by Josh Nesbit discussing the use of FrontlineSMS, a tool to set up a text-based communications network, in a rural health project in Namitete, Malawi. Here’s a 7 minute long interview with one of the community health worker. At about 3:00 she starts discussing the advantage of having a cell [...]