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Mobile Telephony And Media Access In Africa

by Open Society Media Program on Feb 04, 2010

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by Harry Dugmore, MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa.

by Harry Dugmore, MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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www.grocotts.co.za
http://whiteafrican.com/
http://whiteafrican.com/
This is a screen shot fro NIKA. Please seehttp://netserv.ict.ru.ac.za/tracs/nikatrac/roadmap
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/harry_dugmore/
AMDI report: summary of research finding. The USA has about 50,000 journalists, 17 journalists per 100,000 peop That might have changed – those are 2007 figures, but Robert Picard suggests, it is probably still under 1 to 20. http://themediabusiness.blogspot.com/2009/03/overblown-journalist-employment-crisis.html
www.internetworldststs.com
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm
Cell phone change everything! Almost ½ of all African now have cell phones, and by 2012, it is predicted that almost 2/3 of adults in Africa will have them. Take Ghana – it does NOT have much broadband connectivity, or even fixed phone lines. In fact it has fewer than 400,000 fixed lines in 2008. But mobile phone users rose from 215,000 in 2001 to 7.6 million by the end of December 2007. Mobile phones now represent around 90% of all telephone lines in Africa. The subscriber base is still growing at around 50% per year, but the growth curves are beginning to flatten in the continent’s more mature markets, forcing operators to compete more aggressively on price, quality of service and by introducing new services. However, enormous further potential remains, with overall market penetration standing at little more than 30% for the CONTINENT as a whole.
This Map is from FREEDOM HOUSE for 2008/9. What do we mean by this PARTIAL democracy. Just look at these three countries: why are they NOT regarded as democracies. What about Angola – it now has election, 8 parties stood, and yes, the MPLA gained 82% of the vote, and outspend the opposition by ore 100 times combined, and controlled all the media, but they were the first ‘real elections’ since 1992. But they are widely regarded as a shame. But Kenya and Nigeria? Why are they not ‘green”?
http://whiteafrican.com/
This slide is sourced by from a PowerPoint Presentation by Erik Hersman, Big Surprises, Small packages.
This network coverage slide is sourced by from a PowerPoint Presentation by Erik Hersman, “Big Surprises, Small packages”. See http://whiteafrican.com/
This snapshot is from Opera Mini’s monthly State of the mobile web stats: http://www.opera.com/smw/
This snapshot is from Opera Mini’s monthly State of the mobile web stats: http://www.opera.com/smw/ This selection was made by Rhodes colleague. Jude Mathurine from: http://www.slideshare.net/judem1/why-the-future-of-african-journalism-lies-in-mobile-social-networks
See www.Grocotts.co.za
See.www.MXIt.com
SLIDE 40: Thank you!!!!!

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Mobile Telephony And Media Access In Africa — Presentation Transcript

Media and Multi-platforms: some thoughts on mobile telephony and media access in Africa Professor Harry Dugmore MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications School of Journalism and Media Studies Rhodes University, South Africa
Iindaba Ziyafika (‘the news is coming!’)
- Why?
Ratio of Population to Journalists
Number of democracies in Africa
Internet connections per 100 people Africa 2009
- Behold…
- the mobile web… .
The big story of media on mobile phones in Africa over the next few years is going to be Instant Messaging, and social media like Facebook and Twitter, and how they supplement (and possibly surpass) SMS.
20 million users! 20 million log-ons per day! 250 million messages sent and received per day!
Africa’s media futures are mobile! Thank you!