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Everyday Internet MiraclesIllustrating the Power of Open

By Steve Song, on December 9th, 2011

Imagine for a minute that you’ve just bought a new stove. The old stove just wasn’t doing all you needed so you’ve bought a new German-engineered stove. It’s Saturday morning and you’ve managed to get the stove in place, it looks like it fits perfectly but you can seem to get the gas line connected. [...] [...]

Why SMS in Africa?

By Steve Song, on February 3rd, 2010

Erik Hersman recently tweeted “I’d like to hear more on whether we should build SMS or internet services in Africa?” This had the serendipitous effect of breaking a bit of a blogger’s block for me. I think most would agree that the answer is not either/or but a mix of the two. That being the [...] [...]

South African National Broadband Forum

By Steve Song, on March 18th, 2009

I am getting quite excited about the upcoming South African Broadband Forum next week. Inspired by the coalition that emerged in the United States to get broadband infrastructure investment on the political agenda in the run-up to the U.S. election, the Association for Progressive Communications, the Shuttleworth Foundation, Sangonet, and the South Africa Connect project [...] [...]