The Medicinal Uses of Plants by the Akha in Northern Thailand (via )
Michael Gallagher Since I wrote it and spent more time than I should have researching it, I decided to report it to my blog ahead of a trip to Thailand I will…
June 2011
Mobile penetration in Mozambique: data to support to mobile learning efforts
Building a bit on the previous post on recent efforts with mobile learning at the Catholic University of Mozambique, I thought this data might be relevant for two reasons. I…
Catholic University of Mozambique and Distance Learning: Mobile Learning for Teacher Training, Geography dictating need
At the eLearning Africa Conference in Dar es Salaam held recently, I managed to sneak in to one of the presentations after having been introduced by my colleague Siro Masinde…
Gilgamesh and the concerns of humanity, alone
I was reading a bit of the old Sumerian poem the Epic of Gilgamesh and was struck by the following passage. Being one of the earliest pieces of written literature,…
Siddhartha and mobile networks: headless flow
I will start by admitting openly that all of this is a bit of a stretch, but I have read a lot of literature over the years and by jove…
Asia and Africa mobile technology penetration: Vietnam, Gabon top the list
I was using Google’s Public Data Explorer to compare African mobile subscription rates per 100 people for available data for the last 10 years or so and then got the…
Mobile leading to freeflow communication; highlighting a stunted populace
I just returned from Tanzania mostly for the eLearning Africa Conference held last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As always, the energy was palpable and there seemed to be…