Entries Tagged to 'Mobile'
Herman Singh, Group Chief Digital Officer, MTN talks about: the distribution of phones and how people access the Internet; its most popular music platform after ringback tones; the need to invest in creating communities and keeping them engaged; its own investments in digital platforms and the lessons from them; and what Africa's young market means for digital.
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December 16, 2017
Corbyn Munnik, CEO and Founder of Sliide talks about: the launch of Sliide in Nigeria; how it delivers content to the mobile home screen; the type of content you can get; how it uses its ad revenues to buy data for its users; how it raised funds in the UK, Nigeria and Silicon Valley for its launch; the attitude of the mobile operators; and the type of local content it offers.
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March 29, 2016
Julian Von Plato, founder, PockitTv talks about: the video services it's currently offering on mobile in South Africa; its expansion into the rest of Africa; its Nigerian music service; why hyper-local works; data bundling plans; its business model; and the type of content it's looking for.
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January 9, 2016
Andrew Rudge, Reach Trust on: what the organisation does; how he came to set up Reach; its initial relationship with Mxit; its current multi-platform strategy; its Africa expansion plans; its potential relationship with the Lego Foundation; and how users use its information.
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July 6, 2015
Claire Sibthorpe, GSMA Connected Women Programme Director talks about a global study of the gender gap in mobile ownership and use, focusing on the African results in the study. She talks about: the overall global picture in terms of the gender gap; how Africa compares to the rest of the world; variations between different African countries; the reasons for the gender gap and the key factors; and what might be done to close the gender gap.
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April 10, 2015
Elizabeth Hensick Wood, Managing Director, Worldreader Europe on: how many people read its books on mobile in Africa; the different platforms the books are available on; what it costs to read the books; the African authors on the platform; the recent development of pay-for books; what it knows about its readers; the most searched terms on Worldreader; and why Africans do read books.
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March 7, 2015
Raul Martinez, Commercial Director - Africa, Millicom on: drawing on its experience of rolling out Triple Play in Latin America; its investment in Rocket; its support to open the Think incubator in Rwanda and Millicom Digital Ventures; its partnership with Facebook in Tanzania; its approach to solving payment for digital services; and the road from being a mobile operator to a digital services company.
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September 11, 2014
Founder of Tuluntulu Pierre van der Hoven talks about: the launch of the Tuluntulu service; the kind of content channels that it is offering; planned new channels in the near future; its business model; and its future growth predictions.
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June 30, 2014
Chike Maduegbuna, Afrinolly talks about: its latest deal with MTN to put its platform out in all its territories; its strategy to widen its distribution; and the short film competition it is running.
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November 19, 2013
Maeghan Orton, Medic Mobile on: what happens to the data Medic Mobile helps collect; whether decisions are made using the data; an application to ensure vaccine fridges stay at the right temperature; stock control using Medic Mobile apps; and the important of committed staff in Ministries of Health.
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August 5, 2013
Mobile analyst Tomi Ahonen talks about: what augmented reality is; examples of how its used; the number of people currently using it and forward projections of users; and likely future uses of the technology.
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February 15, 2013
Jonathan Donner, Microsoft Research, India and Marion Walton, University of Cape Town talk about: a piece of research on low income teens in South Africa's Cape Town; why this group has something relevant to say about how other developing countries might develop; how the teens combine the use of mobile Internet with telecentres, cyber cafes and libraries; the methodology of the research; and the findings of the research
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November 4, 2012
Mark Shoebridge, biNu on: what this mobile social content platform does; its partnership with World Reader; the 0.5 million mobile book readers it's attracted; the range of books available; and its recent award at the Meffys.
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September 18, 2012
