Text messages steer Nairobi drivers around congestion | Citiscope. Bangla-Pesa parmi les 21 meilleures innovations en Afrique - La France au Kenya. Une kényane a été sélectionnée comme l’une des 21 meilleures candidates parmi 800 dossiers présentés dans le cadre de l’initiative : Forum africain, 100 innovations en matière de développement durable, lancée par le ministère français des Affaires étrangères en partenariat avec l’Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Mme Caroline Dama de Mombasa a été choisie pour son projet sur les innovations financières à portée sociale : Bangla-Pesa. Bangla-Pesa a pour objectif de renforcer et de stabiliser l’économie du quartier défavorisé de Bangladesh, situé dans la ville côtière de Mombasa, au Kenya, en organisant des petites entreprises artisanales en un réseau de plus de 100 entreprises au sein duquel les membres peuvent échanger leurs biens et assurer leurs besoins de premières nécessité même pendant les plus profondes récessions économiques.
Pour plus d’informations : Le téléphone mobile, nouvel outil de développement selon la Banque Mondiale. Dans un rapport intitulé "Maximizing Mobile" (« Tirer le meilleur du mobile »), la Banque Mondiale et infoDev – son partenariat pour l’innovation et la technologie – montrent comment le téléphone mobile est devenu en moins de vingt ans un nouvel outil de développement pour les pays les plus pauvres.
Les chiffres rappelés par le rapport sont éloquents : Près de trois quarts des habitants de la planète ont désormais accès à un téléphone portable ;Le nombre d’abonnements à la téléphonie mobile – à forfaits ou prépayés – est passé de moins de 1 milliard en 2000 à plus de 6 milliards aujourd’hui, dont près de 5 milliards dans les pays en développement ;Au Sénégal, 85,8 % des foyers possédaient un abonnement à une compagnie de téléphonie en 2009, un taux supérieur à celui du Canada (77,2 %) et même des Etats-Unis (82,7 %) ;30 milliards d’applications mobiles ont été téléchargées en 2011.
Le rapport est téléchargeable ici. Like this: J'aime chargement… Amadeus Capital Partners - Amadeus Raises $75m Towards New Fund. Amadeus Raises $75m Towards New Fund Amadeus Capital Partners, the technology investor, has held a First Close at $75 million on the Amadeus IV Digital Prosperity Fund, the first of its fourth generation of funds. The Fund will invest in late stage venture and growth companies, predominantly in mature markets, developing online and mobile applications and services targeted at the rapidly expanding middle classes in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.
Further investment is anticipated from other institutional and corporate investors interested in the Fund’s strategy. The cornerstone investor in the Fund is MTN Group, (www.mtn.com), the global telecoms provider headquartered in Johannesburg with operations in 22 countries. Amadeus already has over 20 portfolio companies with customers in Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Cambridge Broadband Networks, Edgeware, Celltick and ip.access. 4 lessons for investing in Africa from Kenya's Savannah Fund. 31% of Kenya’s GDP is spent through mobile phones - Quartz.
Innovation in Africa: Upwardly mobile. Nicolas Boileau. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Boileau. Nicolas Boileau, dit aussi Boileau-Despréaux, le « législateur du Parnasse » (né le à Paris[1] et mort le à Paris), est un poète, écrivain et critique français. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Quinzième enfant de Gilles Boileau, greffier de la Grand' Chambre du Parlement de Paris, Nicolas Boileau est, dès son plus jeune âge, destiné au droit.
Il a deux frères : Gilles Boileau et Jacques Boileau. Nicolas Boileau est d'abord un enfant de constitution fragile qui doit se faire opérer de la taille à l'âge de onze ans[3]. Boileau, aidé de sa famille, a probablement forgé de toute pièce une généalogie qui lui accordait un titre de noblesse et qu'il faisait remonter jusqu'au XIVe siècle, à Jean Boileau, un notaire royal anobli par Charles V. Le blason de Nicolas Boileau La théologie et le Droit[modifier | modifier le code] Les Satires[modifier | modifier le code] Moi ! Œuvres[modifier | modifier le code]
5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance. Voice of Kibera. Www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/file/ON Africa Report_April 2013_FInal.pdf. How mobile technology is transforming Africa. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Rudy de Waele, CEO of Nyota Media. You can follow him as @mtrends on Twitter. I started investigating mobile in Africa early 2010, which resulted in the Mobile Trends 2020 Africa document that I curated together with Ken Banks and Erik Hersman, and presented at The Next Web Conference in 2011.
Embedded below is a summary of slides from the “How Mobile Technology is Transforming Africa” presentation I gave at the Mobile Innovations @ OCE Discovery event in Toronto in May 2013. As a taster, if you want to learn more about the state of the industry on Mobile Technology in Africa, you may wish to check first the Mobile Opportunities in Africa – Engaging with the Next Billion slides I published a couple of months ago. The presentation examines how mobile is used in combination with sustainable energy solutions to power local rural communities and how young students use 3D Printing technology to design solutions for local health problems. The WOW generation. mPesa - Safaricom study. M-Pesa 2010. Mpesa Send Money Home TV Commercial. INFOGRAPHIC: The Mobile Money...
The Economist explains: Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money? PAYING for a taxi ride using your mobile phone is easier in Nairobi than it is in New York, thanks to Kenya’s world-leading mobile-money system, M-PESA. Launched in 2007 by Safaricom, the country’s largest mobile-network operator, it is now used by over 17m Kenyans, equivalent to more than two-thirds of the adult population; around 25% of the country’s gross national product flows through it. M-PESA lets people transfer cash using their phones, and is by far the most successful scheme of its type on earth. Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money? M-PESA was originally designed as a system to allow microfinance-loan repayments to be made by phone, reducing the costs associated with handling cash and thus making possible lower interest rates.
But after pilot testing it was broadened to become a general money-transfer scheme. Dozens of mobile-money systems have been launched, so why has Kenya’s been the most successful? Kipochi launches M-Pesa integrated bitcoin wallet in Africa. Global bitcoin wallet service Kipochi has launched a product that allows people in Africa to send and receive bitcoins, plus convert them to and from the Kenyan currency M-Pesa. This will allow Kenyans to transfer money in an easier, faster and more cost effective way than is currently offered by banks and money transfer companies, such as Western Union and MoneyGram. Kipochi works on all mobile phones as it has SMS, USSD and HTML5 frontends, so there is no requirement for users to have the most up-to-date handsets. “We believe Bitcoin can truly help people in the developing world and wanted to develop a mobile wallet for it that works in a similar way to what people are already using. M-Pesa is by far the most successful mobile wallet in the world, which made it a pretty logical step for us to integrate with it,” said Pelle Braendgaard, co-founder of Kipochi.
LocalBitcoins.com has also recently turned its attention to M-Pesa, making this option available to traders in Kenya and Tanzania. TPonti : Le "Madoff du bitcoin" poursuivi... Mtrends : Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Wired Magazine. In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
None of the list’s veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he lived in Japan. His email address was from a free German service. Google searches for his name turned up no relevant information; it was clearly a pseudonym. One of the core challenges of designing a digital currency involves something called the double-spending problem. Bitcoin did away with the third party by publicly distributing the ledger, what Nakamoto called the “block chain.” When Nakamoto’s paper came out in 2008, trust in the ability of governments and banks to manage the economy and the money supply was at its nadir. Nakamoto himself mined the first 50 bitcoins—which came to be called the genesis block—on January 3, 2009. Bitcoin 101 Play Dough. The Economist explains: How does Bitcoin work?
PelleB : Interview: Kipochi founder... Game over, Bitcoin ! À quand des monnaies virtuelles valorisant l'humain ? La monnaie virtuelle Bitcoin est la preuve que les monnaies cryptées distribuées ont de l’avenir, mais ses défauts soulèvent des critiques justifiées. Il est temps de passer à l’étape suivante de la révolution monétaire pour créer un système au service de l’humain. Quand Bitcoin a démarré en 2009, il ne s’agissait que d’un obscur projet crypto-anarchiste. Aujourd’hui Bitcoin est devenu un sujet super hype dans la communauté mondiale des utilisateurs d’internet – et même au delà. Des squats de Londres à Kreuzberg, le quartier alternatif de Berlin, tout le monde n’utilise pas Bitcoin, mais tout le monde en parle.
De quoi s’agit-il ? Si certaines rêvent que le bitcoin s’impose comme véritable alternative aux euros ou au dollar, aujourd’hui, le système demeure essentiellement utilisé pour effectuer des dons en ligne, acheter des services d’hébergement, jouer à des jeux d’argent en ligne, ou encore l’achat de stupéfiants.
“Un système conçu pour créer des milliardaires en bitcoins” zcopley. Protocol of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer payment network that operates on a cryptographic protocol. Users send bitcoins, the unit of currency, by broadcasting digitally signed messages to the network using Bitcoin wallet software. Transactions are recorded into a distributed public database known as the block chain, with consensus achieved by a proof-of-work system called "mining".
The block chain is distributed internationally using peer-to-peer filesharing technology similar to BitTorrent. The protocol was designed in 2008 and released in 2009 as open source software by "Satoshi Nakamoto", the pseudonym of the original developer or group of developers. The network timestamps transactions by including them in blocks that form an ongoing chain called the block chain.
Such blocks cannot be changed without redoing the work that was required to create each block since the modified block. The network itself requires minimal structure to share transactions. Transactions[edit] Paper wallets[edit] Bitcoin.pdf. Bitcoin infographic. How a Bitcoin transaction works Bob, an online merchant, decides to begin accepting bitcoins as payment. Alice, a buyer, has bitcoins and wants to purchase merchandise from Bob. Bob and Alice both have Bitcoin "wallets" on their computers Wallets are files that provide access to multiple Bitcoin addresses.
An address is a string of letters and numbers such as LGULMwZEPkjEPeCH438ekjlybLCWropN Each address has its own balance of bitcoins. -Bob creates a new Bitcoin address for Alice to send her payment to. -Alice tells her Bitcoin client that shed like to transfer the purchase amount to Bob’s address. Private key Public Key -Alice's wallet holds the private key for each of her addresses. -Anyone on the network can now use the public key to verify that the transaction request is actually coming from the legitimate account owner.
-Gari Garth and Glenn are Bitcoin miners. -The computers bundle the transactions of the past 10 minutes into a new “transaction block” Nonces The root of all evil??? For Developing World, a Streamlined Facebook - NYTimes.com. Hardware ? Text to Change. Building the BRCK: A backup generator for the internet. Why do we rely on equipment made for the Berlin, Orlando and Tokyo when the conditions we have in Nairobi, Lagos or New Delhi are completely different? Today we’re announcing the BRCK: The easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don’t have electricity. We have a BRCK Kickstarter going, where we’re asking for your on taking it from prototype to production.
The BRCK is a simple, and it came from us asking: “How would we design a redundant internet device for Africa?” It would need to do the following: A router for 20 peopleWith 8+ hours of battery for when the power goes outThat fails over to 3g when the Internet goes outThat travels, so you become a mobile hotspotWith cloud-based backend that supports every countryOn device with both a software and hardware API As a web company, being connected to the internet when you need it is a big deal, small outages cause lag that ripple through the organization. Some History Making things is hard. Feature Phones Versus Smartphones – Which Way, Africa? | TechCabal. Africa is mobile…but the continent is torn between the smartphone army and the dumbphone brigade. Both camps have compelling arguments in their arsenal. Qualcomm’s Alex Dadson made an interesting presentation at the just concluded edition of Mobile Web West Africa.
After showing us a bunch of nifty animated slides that would make Tony Stark proud, he went on to tell us Qualcomm’s vision for Nigeria by 2014. “By 2014, smartphones will be ubiquitous in Nigeria”, he said. It’s the kind Afro-techno vision that I desperately want to believe in. Africa is mobile…duh. In the feature phone camp, Nic Haralambous thinks that talk of smartphone ubiquity in Africa, in the near term, are hot air. But his opinion does not go uncontested.
That article predicts that most Africans will have smartphones in five years. Smartphones are still expensive? “You’re gonna get to a point where you walk into a store, and the feature phones and smartphones cost the same. Listen to my interview of him here. The Problem with Hardware in Africa. Recently I wrote about the making of the BRCK here in Nairobi, and I alluded to some of the issues around doing hardware in Africa. “Making things is hard. It’s harder in Africa. I can’t overnight an order of processors, boards or 3d printing filament here. There aren’t an over abundance of local fabrication facilities or tools, and the milling machine you find might be in disrepair and take you two days to calibrate. We’ve got our work cut out to create the right spaces for prototyping and small-scale fabrication on the continent.” I just had another experience that underscores the difficulties. FedEx called me with the news that a package we were waiting for had arrived. Before I go any further, I’ll state that I think it’s imperative that you build hardware like the BRCK, or Kahenya‘s new Able Wireless device, where it will be used.
It’s hard to get the components that you need. This is the very earliest prototype of the BRCK. Afrikoin- Emerging Digital Currency & Payments in Africa - Emerging Digital Currency and Payments in Africa. Could you build the next-gen mobile network using Kickstarter and Indiegogo? Building mobile networks isn’t for wimps. It takes billions of dollars in spectrum assets, physical equipment and people with the expertise to ensure that calls and data requests go through every time. But a growing number of projects are seeking funding to build open networks on the cheap — and outside of government and carrier manipulation. Efforts such as the Serval Project, Open Garden and even the BRCK are all trying to build connectivity in places where it’s unavailable, unreliable or even compromised — and some are doing it via crowd funding.
The Serval Project is the latest of these, launching with an Indiegogo campaign last week seeking $300,000 to build a mesh extender network. The mesh extender they are trying to build would sit in key locations and boost the radius of the mesh over which these phones running the Serval software can communicate. When one person was calling another person, networks had to be structured one way.
iHub > Technology - Inside East Africa’s technology hubs. African youth hungry for connectivity | Africa Renewal Online. 88mph - Investing in startups targeting the African market. 88mph_deck_2013. Jonathan Kalan: Under 30, Inspired, and Kicking Ass. About | The (BoP) Project Blog. Wananchi. WhiteAfrican | Where Africa and Technology Collide! Quora: What are some hot startups based in Africa ?
Framework infos. Mobile money: Charging the mobile. Worldbank - M-Pesa 2010.