I have just listened to the podcasted interview that Kiwanja's boss Ken Banks recently gave on the work of kiwanja.net to Erik Hersman, the man behind the hugely popular White African blog, on the African Signals website.
African Signals, if you don't know, is a new internet video news channel which highlights interesting technology stories from around Africa and Ken Banks has been at the forefront tackling issues surrounding the implementation technologies especially sms and mobile web in developing countries.
Mr Banks and his FrontlineSMS system have been around for about 18 months, and early this year developed the sms technology used for the monitoring of the Nigerian presidential elections from the grass roots level and rural areas.
Talking about that, I am really glad (or should i say relieved :) ) the Nigerian election has come and gone, and despite all the shortcomings, we are finally moving on.
Whilst i am still feeling blue that i couldn't make the trip eventually to Banff, Canada for the 16th International World Wide Web Conference taking place this week till Friday 11th May, because i was poorly (like we say in this part of Yorkshire) at least i was delighted i would not miss Ken Banks paper presentation at the MobEA V workshop.
Having attended the 15th edition in Edinburgh last year, the organisers have promised to send me a CD of conference proceedings.
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