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Tweeting Across Africa

January 31, 2012 – 5:22 pm

New research from Portland shows that South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading Tweeting in Africa.  The researched analysed +11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011, findings include that political leaders are still largely absent from the debates playing out on Twitter. It concludes that as [...]

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Text messages save mothers’ lives in Rwanda

August 16, 2010 – 3:17 pm

A recent CNN article highlights interesting use of mobile technology in Rwanda, where the government has issued nearly 500 mobile phones to community health care workers in the rural Musanze district.  Through a text message, health care workers can register expectant mothers with a local clinic, where doctors track their progress.  Subsequent queries, complications or [...]

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M4ID at Mobile Africa Event

August 4, 2010 – 5:05 pm

M4ID is pleased to have been invited to speak at Mobile Africa – Europe’s largest and most innovative happening on mobile opportunities in Africa.  The event includes speakers ranging from Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Nokia and Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Siemens Networks to Marlon Parker, founder of JamiiX [...]

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YouTube turns 5 and expands in to South-Africa

May 18, 2010 – 12:12 pm

Google announced through it’s blog that YouTube has launched a  South Africa version. YouTube is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities, such as the Rhodes Journalism School.  While YouTube is of course available to anyone on the Internet , [...]

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Facebook now in Swahili

June 15, 2009 – 4:50 pm

Facebook has launched a Swahili language version, targeting more than 110m Swahili-speakers mainly living in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, parts of the Horn of Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and the Indian Ocean islands. Analysts say a Hausa version could be launched next in West Africa and Zulu for southern Africa. Facebook already exists [...]

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