I’m just back from a week in Johannesburg, South Africa where I also spoke at the Mobile Web in Africa 2010 conference. I’m still digesting the many diverse impressions but it has been a very interesting week with lots of new insights on the mother continent and some very interesting people I met. I’ll be writing more on the projects I got to know about, meanwhile here are the slides of my presentation on the Future of Mobile in Africa.
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I’ll be focusing quite a lot in the near future on mobile in Africa. Feel free to get in touch to inform me about your project or if you know about an interesting one.
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Rudy great eye opener on Africa. Mobile is going to enable tech Africa just as it has India. I used to run (South) Africa for Netscape and have a little knowledge of this part of the world but Slide 58 said it all. No Momo outside of SA. What is happening in the rest of the continent. I look forward to more presentations.
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I do believe that there is a MoMo in Nairobi that kicked off earlier in 2010, and if anyone is interested i’d be happy to try to support starting a Lagos one at Mobile Web West Africa in Feb 2011. Amazing amount of interest in this post and Rudy’s slides from the event.
Ummm, slide 11 seems a little optimistic for iPhone.
73% of smartphones in Europe? 40% of smartphones worldwide? Symbian only on 7%?
Comscore says something VERY different.
South Africa, Kenya? Niger?
Erhh, what about Nigeria? Or Egypt?
Is this myopia or something more invidious?
Re: MoMo in Africa = Capetown, Cairo, Jo’Burgh, Kampala and Nairobi, already established with Dar es Salaam now just launching Oct. 4th. Also, apparently groups coming together in several other locations including Lagos..
Take a look at this article ” Mobile Web Design in Africa”. I find it relevant and interesting with this particular topic. http://www.africandigitalart.com/2010/10/mobile-web-design-in-africa/
Hi, there is an interesting discussion on Friday at Columbia University with some speakers involved in a mobile project in Africa: http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/students/organizations/sec/conference2010/speakers.htm#Bartolome
Innovative Mobile Phone Strategies and Applications in the Developing World
Will new for-profit and nonprofit ICT initiatives using mobile telephony transform the development business, and how? Given the modularity of technology solutions, how can they be combined, and what issues arise in collaboration for systemic change? What lessons can be learned from the creation of technology companies focused on the BOP that use a mix of grassroots and foreign talent and funds?
Moderator: Spencer Ante, Deputy Bureau Chief of the New York Corporate Bureau, Wall Street Journal
Speakers:
· David del Ser Bartolome ’08, Co-founder, Frogtek
· Bright Simons, President, mPedigree Network
· Mike Quinn, CEO, Mobile Transactions Zambia
· Martin Hartigan ’69, formerly with the World Bank Group
I just went to MoMoKla (i.e., Mobile Monday, Kampala) a few weeks ago when I was working in Uganda. They have a fairly active chapter – see http://www.momokla.ug/. There’s quite a bit going on out there…
interesting!
I think you mean Nigeria and not Niger (27), as the Bible wouldn’t be a top app download in Niger.