NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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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Mobile Mali Web Time 47

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

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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Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2011

My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. The truck drivers had used their cell phones to get the word out to their networks via text message as the approached the city. During our time in Africa, mobile phones became ubiquitous. It was a heck of a thing to witness.

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Technology Change Mali Africa 60

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

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. And now for something completely different.

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Mali PowerPoint Feeds Phone 40

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

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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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74