Poverty

Making Money Mobile – Of Value and Values

Mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile money for us is mostly out of interest and stems from noticing the opportunity that exists in these areas – a business opportunity.  For others it is about the gadgets, the novelty and the convenience.  In other places around the world, mobile becomes a vehicle through which people can [...]

December 15, 2010 Read the full article →

The Right Device for the Developing World

A while back we wrote a post entitled Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development which was fairly well received.  Although this topic may be considered slightly off-topic to some of you it is still a very hot topic out there.   If you are interested Quocirca has a small write-up on entitled – The right device for [...]

September 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development

Slightly off topic… but as I was catching up on some of my Google Reader reading I came across this post by Hannes over at the Mobile Banking Blog on Defeating Poverty.  Over the last year I have come across this topic perhaps hundreds of times.  Those of you who follow the mobile space beyond [...]

March 20, 2009 Read the full article →