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ICT Access and Usage in Africa

By Steve Song, on April 30th, 2009

In a couple of recent posts, I have mentioned the percentage of disposable income spent by Africans on mobile communication. While I have posted links to the research, I think it is worth singling out the work of Research ICT Africa. What is in desperately short supply in Africa is rigorous, demand-side evidence of ICT [...] [...]

South Africa: Income Spent on Communication

By Steve Song, on March 12th, 2008

The conventional wisdom in the ICT4D community is that people in developing countries spend a higher percentage of their income on communications than the global average. For South Africa, this notion became is widely accepted (I think) thanks to the Vodafone study on mobile usage, in which Diane Coyle of Enlighenment Economics says: “Expenditure on [...] [...]