Perspective- After years of sparse rain, the floodgates opened May 7, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Impact of mainstreaming and commodification of cyber cafe services May 4, 2013 Niti Bhan
- The role of the cyber cafe: Assisted entry ramp onto the information superhighway to use a cliche May 4, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Estimating price in unexplored and untapped markets May 3, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Mobile phones and China: Two concurrent factors of global urbanization of rural African market towns. May 3, 2013 Niti Bhan
Tag Archives: africa
Prototyping to reality: niche mobiles for unmet needs
In May 2006, a little news snippet about a team of undergraduate students having successfully developed Amharic text for the mobile phone caught my eye when I was creating the Design Directory newsletter. Back then, the news article ended with … Continue reading
Posted in BoP, Bottom of the pyramid/Poverty, Culture & research, Design, Mobile platform, pay as you go economy, Strategy
Tagged africa, innovation
The most insightful observation on the mobile internet experience for the BoP
This is not to say that these billions of mobile phones do not have the potential to access content from the web – rather, the traditional browser-based paradigm of internet usage does not cater to them. The idea that the … Continue reading
