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(Now's the Time to) Bring the Mobile Web into Your Organization

NTEN

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by. Mobile is the future, but it's also here, right now. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. Mobile phones have made the uptake of ICT services achievable because they have become incredibly available. Realizing Potential .

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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. During our time in Africa, mobile phones became ubiquitous. Just up one of them, a few squat concrete shops sat boarded up – except, every now and then, a crowd would start to gather, eventually filling most of the street.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't. Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Summers Over Once Again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Over the long weekend I finally managed to get started on a new project I've been excited to get involved with - a new website for the Sigida Keneyali health project in Mali that I blogged about in January. Mobile: An Open/Standards-based phone to debut. OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based platform for mobile device software development.

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