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  Posted by Jason on Oct 22, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, asia (2), business (21), india (18), kenya (7)

  India Loves Africa, Inks Massive Trade Deal With Kenya

  India and Kenya are looking to double their trade in the next two years. Kenya wants support in its textile industry and India has its eye on renewable energy sources. The new agreement aims to goose bilateral trade up to 200 billion Kenyan shillings, or about $2.5 billion, by the end of 2013.

  India, it seems, is emerging to be a prominent player across the continent of Africa. Trade has grown 145% in the past four years between India and South Africa alone.

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  http://www.fastcompany.com/1696869/india-and-kenya-find-common-interest-in-trade-agreements

   

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  Posted by Jason on Oct 21, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: advertising (3), africa, business (21)

  Ad Agencies See Africa as Next Big Thing

  “Fifteen months after Kofi started to set up shop, we already have higher revenue in Ghana than in South Africa,” said Richard Pinder, chief operating officer of Publicis Worldwide, a unit of Publicis Groupe SA, which wants to increase its business on the continent. The reason: Advertising growth in Africa is soaring, driven by telecom companies, financial services firms and makers of consumer products.

  Source

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304741404575564193783950352.html

   
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  Posted by Jason on Oct 14, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, infographic (5), map (11)

  The True Size of Africa

  

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  http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/the-true-size-of-africa/

   
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  Posted by Jason on Oct 11, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, business (21), rwanda (4)

  Rwanda jumps 76 places in ease of doing business rankings

  For the first time since Doing Business started tracking reforms, a Sub-Saharan African economy, Rwanda, led the world in reforms. Rwanda has steadily reformed its commercial laws and institutions since 2001. In the past year it introduced a new company law that simplified business start-up and strengthened minority shareholder protections. Entrepreneurs can now start a business in two procedures and three days. Rwanda has also enacted new laws in order to improve regulations to ease access to credit. Other reforms removed bottlenecks at the property registry and the revenue authority, reducing the time required to register property by 255 days. Overall, Rwanda introduced reforms in 7 out of the 10 categories, rising from 143rd to 67th place on the ease of doing business rankings.

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  http://www.doingbusiness.org/features/reformers2010.aspx

   
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  Posted by Jason on Sep 8, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, developingCountries (191), mobile (101), uganda (5)

  Feasibility study in Uganda (2008) recommends radio for farmers and SMS for traders as delivery channels for market info.
  http://www.ifpri.org/publication/making-market-information-services-work-better-poor-uganda (via)

   
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  Posted by Mark on Aug 16, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, crowdsourcing (12)

  good overview of the Tech4Africa conference. They bring up a good point that outside of crowd sourcing it is difficult for technology created to flow up the pyramid since it tends to flow from developed to emerging markets, not vice versa because of lack of connectivity.

  http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/14/tech-for-and-by-africa/

   
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  Posted by Jason on Aug 11, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, developingCountries (191), education (6), IBM (20)

  IBM Partnering with East African Universities on Software Development

  [IBM East Africa Manager] Tony Mwai told journalists in Nairobi that the collaboration would place emphasis on the development of software that is relevant to the local market.

  “IBM EA will create a linkage with universities abroad that have specialized in software development and tailor make the curriculum to produce software relevant to this part of the word. IBM has unveiled the zEnterprise System, a technological breakthrough that is set to revolutionize the way data centres work,” he said.

  Targeted universities include Kigali Independent University (Rwanda), Makere University (Uganda), Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Kenya) and Nairobi University (Kenya).

  http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=8590 (via)

   
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  Posted by Jason on Aug 6, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, developingCountries (191), ebooks, ghana (2), literacy (3)

  Nonprofit Tries One-Kindle-Per-Child In Ghana

  Risher says he thinks e-books will let the developing world skip the paper stage, in much the same way cell phones have helped countries skip the landline stage. E-readers, he says, are more akin to cellphones than laptops — and are well designed for the developing world because they don’t consume much power and they use the universal GSM network. “Computers play a great role, but e-readers really solve the reading problem much more direct and simple way,” says Risher.

  http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/08/05/nonprofit-tries-one-kindle-per-child-in-ghana/

   
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  Posted by Jason on Aug 2, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, banking (8), developingCountries (191), economics (23), mobile (101)

  In 3.5 minutes, learn how M-PESA reached 9 million Kenyans in 3 years

  http://technology.cgap.org/2010/08/02/in-35-minutes-learn-how-m-pesa-reached-9-million-kenyans-in-3-years/

   
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  Posted by Jason on Jul 30, 2010 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa, developingCountries (191), microfinance (4)

  Gallup: Over 60% of sub-Saharan Africans have never heard of microfinance or say it’s unavailable in their communities

  

  http://www.gallup.com/poll/141629/Few-Sub-Saharan-Africans-Aware-Local-Microfinance-Options.aspx