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Mobile Entrepreneurs in Africa

The Web Foundation is establishing its first mobile training lab for entrepreneurs.

Vodafone is providing the Web Foundation with $1 million over 3 years to pilot mobile training laboratories in Africa, with the aim of helping  individual entrepreneurs to learn relevant technology and business skills to start new mobile services. The first laboratory will be launched in Ghana during 2010. Our objective is to create dynamic mobile Web and voice ecosystems that will enable entrepreneurs to launch their own sustainable businesses, as well as enable all segments of the population to have access to new and innovative services that are useful and usable.

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Web Foundation at SpeechTEK 2010

Jul 30, 2010 • Max Froumentin

On Wednesday 4 August, I will be leading a discussion on speech technologies in the developing world at the SpeechTEK 2010 conference, in New York City.

At the Foundation, we believe that speech technology is crucial for bringing Web access to the 4.8 billion people who have basic mobile phones and/or who are illiterate. Voice access may also prove useful for people communicating in languages that do not work well on the Web. Therefore, SpeechTEK is a great opportunity for us to raise awareness on the use of voice technologies for social development.

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Mobile Web Africa Series

Jul 26, 2010 • Stéphane Boyera

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I’m delighted to see that the series of events called Mobile Web Africa, organized by Matthew Dawes from All Amber expanding all over Africa, with numerous dates and instances in south, east, and west part of the continent. As reported before, I took part of the first event last year in Joburg, and this was a very successful event. I was not able to attend the East Africa version, last February, but I heard from different participants that it was also a very good meeting.

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Events at a Glance: 21 July – 21 Aug 2010

Jul 21, 2010 • Craig Heintzman

See details below for a list of events where the Web Foundation will be participating in the next month. Please Contact us to let us know if you plan to be there too.

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