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Reaching illiterate people in the emerging countries: the power of voice based mobile apps

by Celine | May 23, 2014 | Countries, Innovators, Markets, Social enterprises

While attending Mobile West Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, we again were confronted with a key trend of technology in the emerging markets: voice-based apps. In Africa, for instance 38% adults are still illiterate, as well as 25% in Asia (not forgetting the incredibly huge...

E-commerce in Nigeria: how Rocket Internet's Jumia, Kaymu and Jovago are taking over Africa's biggest market

by Celine | May 21, 2014 | Accelerators & Incubators, Countries, Innovators, Markets, Startups

If Nigeria is “Africa’s India”, it’s for the sheer size of the market – 170m people now, 440m by 2050 – and because with a GDP growing between 4.5 and 9% each year over the past decade, there is now a small but growing part of the...

Mobile technology and politics in developing countries: case studies from Nigeria, India and South Africa

by Celine | May 20, 2014 | Continents, Government, Innovators, Markets

There’s no political “perfect state”, but in Africa especially, governance is a recurring issue. Corrupt or broken government make it hard for the population to get out of the poverty cycle, create value through entrepreneurship, or just take part in...

In Nigeria, forget Facebook, 2go and Eskimi are the two social mobile networks that matter

by Celine | May 18, 2014 | Countries, Innovators, Markets, Startups

We all saw these world maps of social media, where each country has the color of its main platform: Facebook in all western countries and much more, Qzone in China, and a few local resistants such as VKontakte in Russia. For the main tech giants, such as Google,...

Solo Phone: the Nigerian smartphone that gets rid of the data issue

by Celine | May 18, 2014 | Countries, Innovators, Markets, Startups

Data consumption for mobile internet access is everywhere a hot topic, but even more in emerging markets where the infrastructure is either in bad shape or almost inexistant. Rather than waiting for Facebook or Google to deploy a high-speed internet with the help of...

Mobile West Africa 2014: wrap-up of Nigeria's largest tech conference

by Celine | May 16, 2014 | Countries, Events, Innovators, Markets

Nigeria was an obvious stop on our world tour of innovation in emerging markets. The country with the biggest population in Africa (and growing by 10m new people every year) has recently been promoted to its largest economy as well, beyond South Africa. It’s...
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