Posts Tagged ‘mobile phone’

Innovations from the developing world (2) April 9, 2009 1 Comment

Yesterday we wrote about innovation of the mobile phone and applications industry in East Africa. Today, we’ll continue with a story on mobile phone usage in Mexico. We found an article about “how one of the biggest Latin hits of the past year arrived on the Billboard charts all the way from Caborca, a small [...]

Innovations from the developing world (1) April 8, 2009 No Comments

This week, we stumbled across two interesting sources on technical and mobile innovations that originated in the developing world. The Tecno Brega music scene in Brazil, which we wrote about earlier, is a similar example. It strikes us that the best technical and social innovations come forward out of the needs that exist in these [...]