Home Page. Music from Saharan Cellphones | sahelsounds. Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, playback songs on tinny built in speakers, and swap files in a very literal peer to peer Bluetooth wireless transfer. The songs chosen for the compilation were some of the highlights -- music that is immensely popular on the unofficial mp3/cellphone network from Abidjan to Bamako to Algiers, but have limited or no commercial release. They're also songs that tend towards this new world of self production -- Fruity Loops, home studios, synthesizers, and Autotune. In 2010, various versions of saharan cellphone music were released on cassette.
The official vinyl release is available for purchase here: littleaxerecords.weebly.com/distributed-titles.html chris sahelsounds. Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique - Nigeria - Habitele. West Africa's technological revolution driven by mobile phones | Monica Mark | Global development. In 2009, businessman Femi Akinde needed to travel quickly across Nigeria. Without immediate access to the internet, it took him a day to book a plane ticket. Finding a number to make a phone reservation took time; connecting – on erratic phone lines – even longer; and bank forms had to be filled in to withdraw money for paying.
"The fact that something that could have taken less than 10 minutes [online] took a torturous whole day got me thinking: if something like an airline ticket was this difficult to procure, how much worse is it down the economic food chain? " he explained. Akinde, who had worked with US telecoms companies, saw a solution in mobile phones. He came up with SlimTrader, a service that allows customers to use their phones to get information and availability, and to pay for services ranging from airplane tickets to bags of fertiliser. Using text messaging for technological advances makes sense in a continent where hi-tech sits cheek-by-jowl with fading technology. Mobile Monday Nigeria: Bringing the Mobile Community Together - Smile...It's Monday!
Glo Mobile. Année 2011 >> Les services de transferts monétaires par téléphonie mobile créent de nouveaux débouchés pour l´accès des petites entreprises aux services financiers.
Les pays de l'est de l'Afrique font le pari du paiement par mobile. Utiliser son mobile comme un compte en banque : un rapport de la Conférence des Nations unies pour le commerce et le développement (Cnuced) publié en juin met en lumière ce phénomène de grande ampleur dans les pays de l'est de l'Afrique mais peu connu en Europe. Dans le monde, depuis le mois de mars, pas moins de 130 systèmes de paiement par mobile ont été lancés. Surtout en Afrique qui est le leader dans ce domaine : soixante plates-formes y sont déjà implantées, dont seize dans les cinq pays de l'est du continent – Burundi, Kenya, Ouganda, Rwanda, et Tanzanie. Ces systèmes, qui mettent en relation des opérateurs téléphoniques traditionnels et des établissements bancaires, permettent à leurs utilisateurs de se servir de leurs téléphones portables pour transférer de l'argent sur le mode du mandat, régler des factures d'électricité ou d'eau, percevoir leurs salaires et même faire des crédits ou souscrire des assurances.
En Afrique de l'Est, le phénomène a pris une ampleur exceptionnelle. Research | Global Pulse.