This exciting ongoing research project is shedding some bright light at cell phone usage in South Africa: We need much better and more in-depth quantitative data to fully comprehend the possibilities connected with mobile phone growth. The numbers from industry reports everyone keeps referring to are just not good enough. Click here to read the full results report.
View the most recent presentation, given at the "Mobile 2.0 - Beyond Voice?" preconference at ICA 2009:
The pilot stage results were presented at e/merge 2008 and at MobileActive08:
HDPT Central African Republic
The Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team (HDPT) unites all organizations working to alleviate the humanitarian and development crisis in the Central African Republic: United Nations agencies, the Red Cross Movement, NGOs and other organizations. Under the inspiring leadership of then-Information Manager Kersten Jauer, we braught Web2.0 into the most forgotten country in Africa. In a lot of ways the technological overhaul of external communication and coordination jumped at least two generations over the last three years. I was fortunate to be able to serve as online producer and communications consultant.
