Tag Archives: asia

A Vision of the Present

Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a ...
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Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions

Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot ...
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New Chinese TV Channel Targets Middle East, North Africa

China’s influence in Africa is growing by the day. Just a few weeks ago, a local Chinese expatriate launched it’s first Africa published newspaper (in ...
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The Bottom 5%

The above map illustrates that by deleting all the countries that make up the bottom 5% of global GDP contributors we eliminate nearly 2.9 billion ...
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India’s Tata becomes Neotel’s Largest Stakeholder

Indian telco Tata Communications has bought an additional 30 per cent stake in South African network operator, Neotel, to become the majority stakeholder in the ...
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Charging 250 Times more in Africa than in India?

Is the African mobile more lucrative than India’s? Indian VAS (Value Added Service Provider) Companies are racing to tap emerging African and Middle Eastern Markets… African ...
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This Week In Appfrica [Dec 7 - 14, 2008]

“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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African Tech 2008: Year in Review

Wow, It’s hard to believe that 2008 is coming to a close. What a year can change!? Obama won the U.S. Presidency; Zimbabwe, Somalia and ...
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Internet Map of the World

It seems the world is moving away from a U.S. centric web… For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but ...
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Asia-Africa on Open Source (AAOS)

This week marks the beginning of the Asia-Africa Open Source Conference in Jakarta… Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their ...
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