Mobile Blogging

From IT News Africa:

“In Africa, most people use a mobile phone to send messages, photos or videos, and they can be sent easily to a circle of contacts,” said Jeanne Mercier, head of the photographer exchange platform “Afrique in visu.”

“So at the same time users can inform themselves about the latest trends, whether it’s some great videos, the presidential election in Mali or religious topics,” she said.

A lot of experts are predicting that African bloggers will leapfrog over the PC platform right to the mobile platform, using tools like the micro-blogging platform Twitter.

“Even though Africa was very late in building technology infrastructure, this can be a chance to develop new technologies,” said Jean-Michel Cornu, chief scientist at the Next Generation Internet Foundation (Fing) in France.

“It is our goal to inform local decision makers as much as possible about new technologies so that eventually the price if the infrastructure will go down,” he said.