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UNDP Mobile Technologies and Empowerment report
A report, recently published by UNDP, on mobile technologies and human development, “Mobile Technologies and Empowerment: Enhancing Human Development through Participation and Innovation”, does a good...
View Article“Doing the Internet”– BoP research with youngsters in India
“Anthropology, Development and ICTs: Slums, Youth and the Mobile Internet in Urban India” is the title of a research paper by Nimmi Rangaswamy and Edward Cutrell of Microsoft Research India. Abstract...
View ArticleExploring mobile-only Internet use (South Africa)
Exploring mobile-only Internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study by Jonathan Donner (Microsoft Research India) and Shikoh...
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On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage
The ubiquitous presence of cell phones in emerging economies has brought about a wide range of cell phone-based services for low-income groups. Often times, the success of such technologies highly...
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An update on the use of e-readers in Africa
What does it take to introduce e-books and e-readers into communities in low income countries — and is this a good idea, asks Michael Trucano on EduTech, a World Bank blog on ICT in education. “Judging...
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BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone
BOOMERANG, death by gadget : the mobile phone », a new kind of documentary presented by Diego Buñuel, March 21th , 8:55pm on CANAL+ BOOMERANG is a 90-minute French documentary that decodes a globalized...
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From banker to service designer
Olga Morawczysnki, project Manager of Grameen Foundation’s AppLab Money Incubator (a CGAP-sponsored new initiative that develops mobile financial products for the poor) and Jan Chipchase, executive...
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Video online of Experientia’s mobile phone concepts for emerging markets
Experientia® has posted a new video on its vimeo channel, showcasing mobile phone concepts for emerging markets. The video was made three years ago for a project in developing markets for Vodafone, but...
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Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion
Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income is rising from around $2 a day to between...
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Digital devices as embodied experiences in remote Indian village
In arguing that digital technologies enable embodied experiences that reshape the very ways in which we conceptualize our everyday life, Nishant Shah, founder and Director of Research for the...
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Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s innovation system
Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with Indian policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report by NESTA, the UK innovation agency, explores the policies, institutions and...
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The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012
HOW WILL the informal economy impact the global business landscape? The landscape of the Informal Economy is vast – from street vending to P2P networks, from piracy to ad-hoc businesses – it is the...
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Africa embracing m-commerce
In a new report from its ConsumerLab, Ericsson maps out the potential of transformation within m-commerce across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth, extensive interviews with mobile...
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Making mobile phones work for the poor
In this BBC article, David Edelstein, a leader in the mobile for development space, argues that human networks are the essential ingredient for mobile phones to improve the lives of the poorest....
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Creating behaviour change in people using mobile technology
Rajeev Suri posted a short interview with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation, who focuses on creating behaviour change in people – particularly in emerging markets –...
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Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao...
For the Stanford-educated founders of Emprego Ligado, creating a successful app in Brazil required dismantling every assumption about the target audience. Emprego Ligado, which translates to “connected...
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How the Kenyan Base of the Pyramid uses their mobile phone
In order to understand mobile phone usage at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa conducted a 6-month study, funded by infoDev (World Bank). A total of...
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Designing products for value
By encouraging more focused collaboration among multiple functional groups (notably marketing and sales, operations, engineering/R&D, and procurement), these leaders are combining deep insights...
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Technology is useless if it doesn’t address a human need
Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the...
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What does it mean to be a digital native?
The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won, argues Oliver Joy on the CNN website. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy...
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