Africa calling: mobile phone usage sees record rise after huge investment | Technology ... - 1 views
Africa's mobile phone e-learning transformation - 5 views
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Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education's reach and quality? Basic handsets, many without internet capability, dominate; smartphone penetration, in the industry jargon, is estimated to be 15 per cent at most Lesego is 18 and lives in an isolated village in western Botswana.
BBC News - TV's white spaces connecting rural Africa - 2 views
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The project is part of the 4Afrika Initiative, an investment programme being announced by technology giant Microsoft, that also includes a new Windows Phone 8 smartphone for the region and investment in help for small businesses on the continent, and in education and internships.For the white spaces project, the company is working with a Kenyan ISP, Indigo Telecom, and the Kenyan government. The ISP is installing wireless 'base stations' - or masts - that are solar-powered, to get round the lack of mains electricity. The base stations act as a link to the nearest main cable connection to the internet, without the expense of extending the fibre-optic network. The solar panels will power the bases stations - and also charge computer equipment The signal supplied is much more powerful than normal wifi.
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Mobile ownership % in Africa map - 6 views
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