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indra de lanerolle: ebooks and deadwood - how comes big publishers are making more money?
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Friday, 18 October 2013. Ebooks and deadwood - how comes big publishers are making more money? One obvious reason for the difference could be prices. If you buy ebooks you may wonder why the average price of a best-selling ebook is almost $10 according to digitalbookworld.com. About the same as the top selling trade paperbacks at Barnes and Noble. You can watch Russ Grandinetti's presentation below via slideshare. Amazon on The Global Transiti...
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indra de lanerolle: Mark Zuckerberg's 'rough plan' for the next five billion
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Monday, 26 August 2013. Mark Zuckerberg's 'rough plan' for the next five billion. By Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan [CC-BY-2.5 (http:/ creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons. In a CNN interview. Last week Mark Zuckerberg said that “one of the biggest problems of my generation is to get everyone in the world to get Internet access.” He announced a new partnership, Internet.org. Is Connectivity a Human Right? Zuckerberg say...
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indra de lanerolle: Internet use in 12 countries in Africa
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Monday, 2 December 2013. Internet use in 12 countries in Africa. Russell Southwood of Balancing Act, an Internet, telecoms and broadcasting research consultancy, has just posted an interview with me on SmartMonkey. Nor medicine but entertainment'. Monday, December 02, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A corruption reporting system for south africa, South African Network Society Survey. A network of social change agents, and a public pr...
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Sunday, 2 December 2012. An opinion piece of mine was published in City Press today. Http:/ www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/Surfing-the-internets-next-wave-20121201. Sunday, December 02, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Current Projects and recent projects: Internet and Mobile for Change - helping civil society organisations improve their use of Internet and mobile, www.corruptionwatch. A global alliance to fund immunisation. . Pullin...
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indra de lanerolle: Dont hold your breath for the digital dividend
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Tuesday, 12 February 2013. Dont hold your breath for the digital dividend. Last night I heard Duncan McLeod, editor of TechCentral. Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Indra de Lanerolles research is focused on internet and mobile use in Africa. He is a Visiting Research Associate and adjunct lecturer at University of WItwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has two decades experience in new media, broadcasting, film...Curre...
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indra de lanerolle: Facebook newsfeed: Are the days of 'interrupt and repeat' really over?
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Thursday, 7 March 2013. Facebook newsfeed: Are the days of 'interrupt and repeat' really over? Thursday, March 07, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Current Projects and recent projects: Internet and Mobile for Change - helping civil society organisations improve their use of Internet and mobile, www.corruptionwatch. A corruption reporting system for south africa, South African Network Society Survey. View my complete profile. SA Emer...
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indra de lanerolle: A parent's guide to social media
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Tuesday, 1 April 2014. A parent's guide to social media. What do parents need to know about their children's Internet use? How much should they control or monitor it? And how can they mitigate risks - or help their children to do so? I helped facilitate a discussion amongst fathers of pupils at my daughter's (girls) school recently. It was an interesting event. The fathers' concerns and questions were wide ranging:. What do I need to know?
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indra de lanerolle: Blackberry - in Africa its not the tech its the service that counts
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Friday, 1 February 2013. Blackberry - in Africa its not the tech its the service that counts. Apple sold more phones ('smart' or otherwise) that any other manufacturer in the last quarter of 2012. But in Africa its a different story. No Its because of the service: BBM and BIS and the revenue model that goes with it. But the for the new phones launched this week, it appears (Blackberry are yet to confirm) that there will be no equivalent to BIS...
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indra de lanerolle: innovation in crises - 'making your own Internet' in Hong Kong
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Innovation in crises - 'making your own Internet' in Hong Kong. ON sunday more than 100,000 people in Hong Kong downloaded a free app: firechat. This is an example of how need drives adoption that developers need to understand much more deeply. Is your app really addressing a (really big) problem? Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A global alliance to fund immunisation. . Pulling Punch...
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indra de lanerolle: 300 hundred Africans die but don't make my local news station's news bulletin
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Mapping Internet media and communications networks in Africa. Friday, 4 October 2013. 300 hundred Africans die but don't make my local news station's news bulletin. Question: how comes BBC British domestic radio news and the BBC News website led. This morning with the story of more than 300 Africans having died off the Italian coast when a ship carrying them sank while the South African radio stations I listened to this morning didn't run the story at all. On 702's news website. In this case the cynical ...
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