Africa: Mobile Internet Taking Off

This week's AfricaFocus Bulletin contains this article from the latest Balancing Act Africa (http://www.balancingact-africa.com) on the rapid expansion of mobile internet access in Africa. Also included: a link to a new book on "Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa" (http://www.africafocus.org/books/isbn.php?9956558532) featuring case studies of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Sudan, and Tanzania; excerpts from another recent article from Balancing Act Africa on the rapid advance of mobile phones for cash transfers in Kenya; and report on a South African initiative to promote a strategy to deliver broadband internet access available to all South Africans (http://www.apc.org/en/node/8361/).