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PC World articles

kiwanja’s regular PC World guest column covers a range of topics touching on the application of technology in the developing world

Whether it’s a new product or service, or a bold move by a big player, the column attempts to bring a new angle to an increasingly important subject – how technology is changing the world for some of the poorest and marginalised members of society

10 August
CreditSMS Helps Structure Informal Mobile Finance [PDF]
31 July
Mobile Phones Help Put a Stop to Drug Stock-outs [PDF]
20 July
Weather Stations Will Use Mobile Infrastructure [PDF]
09 July
Searching Where Google Can’t [PDF]
29 May
Glimpsing into a Mobile Future [PDF]
26 Jan
Mobile Phones Join the Rural Radio Mix [PDF]
16 Jan
Where Walkie-Talkies Dare [PDF]
19 Dec
Mobile Phones and the Birds and the Bees [PDF]
01 Dec ‘Social Mobile’ Applications: The Missing Book [PDF]
20 Nov Mobile Finance – Indigenous, Ingenious or Both? [PDF]
05 Nov Nokia: From Technical Development to Human Development? [PDF]
08 Oct Mobile IT Helps Conservationists Get the Message [PDF]
15 Sep ‘Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Technology’ [PDF]
14 Aug Mobiles, SMS Play a Role in Afghanistan Security [PDF]
11 Aug Delivering Aid in a Digital World [PDF]
29 Jul Mobile Phones and the Digital Divide [PDF]
17 Jul Anthropology’s Technology-driven Renaissance [PDF]
27 Jun Witnessing the Human Face of Mobile in Malawi [PDF]
19 Jun The Mobile Revolution’s Hidden Cost [PDF]
06 Jun Serving up Life in an Online World [PDF]
23 May Appropriate Technology and the Humble Mobile Phone [PDF]
15 May Telecom: Nice to Have or Basic Necessity? [PDF]
05 May Intel, OLPC Affordable Laptop Bout Only Hurts Users [PDF]
23 Apr Under the Radar? Africa’s Informal Development [PDF]
14 Apr Mobile Phones Play Role in Zimbabwe [PDF]