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Twitter in Africa and Virtual Worlds
On Your Cell Phone

30. March 2007

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Please see Soyapi Mumba’s, (Liloge, MW), post on Twitter and its possibilities in Africa where the use of mobile phones is much higher than that of computers. Mumba also links to some interesting new uses for Twitter that extend the genre of “what I am doing now” in interesting ways. For example, “The train system […]

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Africa – ‘Phones-for-health’

4. March 2007

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Ten African Countries will be home to a $10 million new cell phone project launched by the U.S. government, technology companies and health groups. The project will focus initially on HIV/AIDS. World Health Organization Assistant Director-General Howard Zucker stated: “The explosive spread of mobile phone networks across the developing world has created a unique opportunity […]

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