Emprendedorismo tecnológico que supera la pobreza

Meet the entrepreneur who has lifted 15,000 young people over the poverty line In rural Northern Uganda, a group of workers assemble each day in a shipping container, which is equipped with solar panels on the roof and high-speed Internet access. These workers are trained by an U.S.-based nonprofit organization called Samasource to perform work for fast-growing tech companies like LinkedIn and Eventbrite. At Samasource’s helm is a 31-year-old San Franciscan: Leila Janah. Inspiration for the company struck when Janah was just a teenager and teaching English to high school students in Ghana. During this trip, she noticed that the country’s most talented and well-educated young people could not...

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La penetración móvil en África llega al 80%

African mobile penetration hits 80% (and is growing faster than anywhere else) John Koetsier We tend to have certain paradigms about the “developing world” and the “developing world,” including Africa. Including, of course, media-fed images of Africa as a place of almost irredeemable poverty, deprivation, and pain.Many of our paradigms are, of course, illusions. A new report on the African telecommunications market highlights that mobile penetration in Africa hit 80 percent in the first quarter of this year, and is still growing at 4.2 percent annually. That’s faster than anywhere else in the world, the report says, and the 54 countries of Africa are, after Asia, the world’s second-largest market.Which means that today, more...

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El tiempo de aire de celular como indicador de riqueza en África

Cómo mapear la riqueza en África usando nada más que minutos de telefonía móvil Por Ritchie Rey @ RitchieSKing hace 4 horas Un grupo de investigadores belgas ha llegado con una nueva forma (pdf) de mapeo de la distribución de la riqueza en Côte d'mirando la compra de minutos de tiempo aire móvil Ivoire por. Después de peinar grandes cantidades de datos sobre las compras individuales de un operador de telefonía móvil nacional (sin nombre en su informe), descubrieron que, en un país donde predominan los teléfonos de prepago, hay básicamente dos tipos de compradores de tiempo de tiempo de aire: los que hacen grandes compras poco frecuentes, llenando en minutos, y los que compran menos minutos con más regularidad. Su teoría es la re-rellenos...

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