M-novels, or mobile novels (stories on your cellphone) are on the rise in South Africa, as Michelle Matthews explained so well in "Cell-lit is all the rage". In SA there is about 10% PC-based internet connectivity, while the number of people with acc...
I recently had a conversation with some people at Google about mobile applications for sub-Saharan Africa. Two key issues emerged: i) South Africa is ahead of the pack in terms of cellphone adoption, coverage and services, and ii) the lowest common d...
It's great to see an innovative approach to HIV education: Metropolitan and CellBook have created an information booklet -- called B the Future -- on HIV and Aids that can be downloaded onto your cellphone. An iAfrica.com article explains the concept...
At the Web4Dev conference in New York I met with the founders, inventors and creators of some pretty amazing mobile-for-development projects. Below are my top five with some thoughts on how they could be used for education.
Ushahidi
Ushahidi -- w...
I first came across Twitter, the micro-blogging service, in 2006 when I was living in San Francisco. Up until quite recently I resisted using it for the simple reason that I didn't think I needed to. I was also worried about the concomitant informati...
My best read of 2008 was Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, sci-fi writer, co-editor of Boing Boing and general good guy.
San Francisco is hit by a major terrorist attack and the US Department of Homeland Security goes bezerk. In the war on ter...
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Earlier this month, on a Saturday afternoon, I found myself walking around the Stadtpark in Vienna, looking for someone called Jane, to play an Olympic sport that was apparently banned 2 000 years ago. If this all sounds a little weird, it's bec...
According to the Young Digital Mavens survey conducted on around 1 000 American and 1 000 Chinese youths, aged:
Millions of young Chinese are embracing the internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions -- almost five times as many Chi...
Again and again I'm struck by the massive uptake of mobile phones in the developing world. Exact figures are often hard to come by, but in South Africa it is estimated that 70% of the population has access to a mobile phone. Amongst the youth, that f...
Last week I attended the third annual eLearning Africa conference in Accra, Ghana. Approximately 1500 delegates from 83 countries, mostly in Africa, gathered to discuss, share and promote various approaches to information and communication technologi...
Steve Vosloo is the 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He is a past Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where he researched youth and digital media. His blog is about innovating education.
