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    She is based in London
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Lessons Learned from AppLab's First Three Years in Uganda « Creating a World ... - 0 views

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    [By Eric Cantor]
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Inside Chungking Mansions with expert Gordon Mathews | CNNGo.com - 0 views

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  • “Low-end globalization is globalization not as practiced by the big multinationals with their batteries of lawyers and their billion-dollar budgets,” says Mathews. “It’s globalization done by individual traders carrying goods in their suitcases back and forth from their home countries. That’s the dominant form of globalization here and that’s how globalization works for 70 percent of the world’s people.”
  • In "Ghetto at the Center of the World," Chungking Mansions is a Grand Central Station and Mathews traces the passage of people and goods from the building to destinations such as Dubai, Lagos, Mombasa, Nairobi, Bangkok, and Kolkata. 
  • Mobile phones figure at the center of Chungking Mansions’ global trade, and Mathews estimates that up to 20 percent of the mobile phones recently in use in sub-Saharan Africa had passed through the building at some point
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  • Mathews writes that some small traders can expect to make between US$400 and $1,300 per trip, but sustaining and building this income takes intelligence, business acumen, and luck.
  • “For 20 years, Chungking Mansions has been up and down,” he says. “It’s been a good place to do business, but these days, it has also become a community center, offering services for all people in the building.” Indeed, a community of sorts does exist, and many other constituencies walk the halls of Chungking Mansions.
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    Chungking Mansions, 36-44 Nathan Road. Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. "Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong" by Gordon Mathews, Hong Kong University Press. Available at English language bookstores in Hong Kong and Amazon.com.
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  • Google launched YouTube in Kenya today. Through Youtube.co.ke, Kenyans would be able to discover and view local content as well as instantly view the most popular videos in Kenya whenever they visit the domain
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Daily Dot | As Arab spring freshness fades, new perspective on the role of social media - 0 views

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  • The impact of social media on Arab spring has been debated since protests began, and will likely be debated for several years to come. Pollack asserts, however, that efforts in Tunisia started in 1998, when Takriz was formed to advocate for free speech and started efforts to move more people online. As late as 2008, just 3,000 Tunisaians were on Facebook; by the start of this year’s riots, that had jumped to 1.97 million, or more than half of the country’s entire population.
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Angola and Portugal: Role reversal | The Economist - 0 views

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    Vying with Nigeria to be Africa's largest producer of crude oil, Angola is awash with Chinese credit to the tune of $14.5 billion. The IMF reckons its GDP will grow by 7.8% this year and 10.5% next. Portuguese building companies such as Teixeira Duarte, Soares de Costa and Mota Engil have been switching from the home market to Angola's. Portuguese banks dominate Luanda's financial sector. But the tables may be turning. Now Angolan state and private investors are eyeing Portugal. Angola's Banco BIC, part-owned by Isabel dos Santos, the eldest daughter of Angola's president of 32 years, José Eduardo dos Santos, is to buy Portugal's Banco Português de Negócios (BPN) for $58m, a fifth of the original asking price of $260m. The IMF made the sale of BPN a condition for Portugal to get its recent bail-out of $113 billion.
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