What can Africa teach the World about Technology?

Author: Alasdair Munn
tcg: The Communication Group
After attending Africa Gathering this weekend, the central key words and phrases I gained were:

Relevance
Solution based approach
Context
Understanding your stakeholders.
Sustainable (All four cornerstones)

In the West, particularly the US, the most publicised and most visible business model for the development of collaborative and people-connecting technologies have been the social network models. [...]

Social Media

Social Media has everybody talking, but are they all talking about the same thing? Social Media is such a vast subject, with many different nuances, disciplines, approaches and reference points.
What do we use social media for? I asked a sample of people, male and female between the ages of 16 and 40. Here are some [...]