Comments on: What is Question Box?

By: Where to now? |

Where to now? | — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:30:22 +0000

[...] cassavas are rotting? Question Box to the rescue! You can ask a question in your own language that can be answered by someone with access to research, the internet and a question archive informed by local knowledge. If you want to sell those [...]

By: Katrin

Katrin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:20:54 +0000

Rocking. Loving the article, and loving AppAfrica. Can not wait to come visit! We'll repost, and link to you with all due and excited credit.

By: jongos

jongos — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:05:06 +0000

Katrin, thanks for the inquiry. I'm not sure why Grameen's legal team threw a fit. I won't even speculate. However, since we launched, our service has been adopted in impressive numbers locally and has made quite an impact with the media. Here are a few of the amazing articles written about it since the launch:

Guardian.co.uk – http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jul/22/m...
Forbes.com – http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/23/google-questionb...
PCWorld – http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/168...

A lot of recent developments have also occured and we're looking forward to making more announcements soon. As for reposting, you're always welcome! As Theresa says, all our content is covered by the creative commons.

By: Theresa Sondjo

Theresa Sondjo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:34:05 +0000

Katrin, all of our content is licensed under the Creative Commons
Share-Alike 3.0 licence. There's an icon at the top of each post, but
I'll see what I can do to make it more clear. Anyway, this means
you're more than welcome to repost!

By: jongos

jongos — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:05:06 +0000

Katrin, thanks for the inquiry. I'm not sure why Grameen's legal team had issue. I also don't want to cause any unnecessary speculation. However, since we launched, our service has been adopted in impressive numbers locally and has made quite an impact with the media. Here are a few of the amazing articles written about it since the launch:

Guardian.co.uk – ” target=”_blank”>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jul/22/m...
Forbes.com – ” target=”_blank”>http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/23/google-questionb...
PCWorld – ” target=”_blank”>http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/168...

By: Katrin

Katrin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:04:48 +0000

Great post, Jon. Curious why Grameen's legal team did not want it out there, though… Also, can I repost on MobileActive? Your content seems to have traditional copyright so need your explicit permission Thanks!

Katrin

By: Gameli

Gameli — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:52:21 +0000

Interesting fresh ideas, keep them flowing for the progress of the mother continent!

By: jongos

jongos — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:04:59 +0000

Okay this post is free, sorry if this caused anyone trouble. I didn't want to delete the post because I knew the gag order was finite and it made more sense to leave it up with the comments and track backs intact for later.

By: agegelabs

agegelabs — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:07:51 +0000

Jon, Is there is a way for me to read the protected posts…Just finding my way around here.

By: jongos

jongos — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:42:29 +0000

Wayan,

Great points on both accounts. First, the physical box is definitely hard to scale which is why we've moved towards mobile. Right now QB doesn't have enough capital to be a call center for the entire country of Uganda so we're trying it out so that we scale up slowly. So we're already doing this, it just takes time with limited resources. A big part of that, secondly, is figuring out how to make the service completely self-sustaining through monetization. I can't share the things we've discussed by they are in the works.