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Timothy Swan

BBC - Future - Technology - How to water crops with a mobile phone - 1 views

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    Farmers in LEDC's using mobile phone technology to aid them in irrigating their fields
Rob Micallef

Technology Review: Videos - 1 views

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    India is the fastest-growing mobile communications market in the world. The rural poor are rapidly adopting phones, so the technology could become a platform for providing banking services. Sanjay Swamy, CEO of the mobile-payment platform mChek, talks about the potential.
Matt Podbury

BBC News - TV's white spaces connecting rural Africa - 6 views

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    Spread of technology into rural Kenya- Internet
Matt Podbury

Africa Interactive.com - A social venture strengthening media in Africa - 0 views

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    Uptake of technology in Africa. Great website with plenty of case study material case studies.
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Smart hand pumps promise cleaner water in Africa - 0 views

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    Mobile phone technology linked to clean water supplies in Africa
Matt Podbury

Africa's mobile economic revolution | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

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    Mobile phone uptake in Africa - excellent case study.
Kathleen Noreisch

GOOD » Where Does the Internet Come From?» - 4 views

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    Last year, important internet cables connecting Europe to Asia were mysteriously severed, resulting in days of outages for millions of internet users. It was a stark reminder that, no matter how instantaneously our information seems to travel, it is, in fact, moving through cables on the bottom of the ocean. And, while the internet might seem like the cutting edge of technology, it's interesting to note that information has been traveling this way since the first telegraph cables were laid across the Atlantic ocean in the 19th century.
Richard Allaway

Internet: Last piece of fibre-optic jigsaw falls into place as cable links east Africa ... - 1 views

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    Leap in capacity will allow cheap internet access and knowledge at speed of light
Richard Allaway

UK housewives are world's top internet surfers | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Global poll also reveals six out of 10 adults in UK have gone on to meet up in 'real life' with someone they met online.
Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Technology | UK housewives rule in online time - 0 views

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    A survey of more than 27,000 web users in 16 countries has shown that the Chinese spend the largest fraction of their leisure time online.
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