A quick housekeeping note: We’ve been traveling, hence the blog neglect. Now, onto the post… A friend of ours has a saying he tells people. It’s a simple saying—a metaphor, really—and he deploys it whenever someone hears he’s from Africa—Nigeria, to be specific—and responds with some variant of the following: Oh, you must know so-and-so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Statistics’
“Africa Is Not a House”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, Statistics on June 22, 2012 |
The Smart Money Isn’t on Smartphones
Posted in Feature Phones, tagged Africa, M-PESA, Mobile Money, Statistics on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Ilan Oosting urges mobile money platforms to remember the important role feature phones play—a song SlimTrader has been singing since our inception: The current scenario has solutions aimed at smartphone users, who frankly are the minority by far. Yes, there are reports that close to 50 percent or more of the mobile subscribers in countries [...]
M-PESA, By the (Really, Really Big) Numbers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, M-PESA, Mobile, Mobile Money, Statistics on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The most important ways of measuring the seismic cultural and economic shifts associated with the rapid spread of mobile technology in Africa are often incalculable. Even rogue economists and statisticians armed with adventurous research methods and fancy algorithms will have a difficult time quantifying, say, reduced stress levels of people completing a task in 10 [...]
