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Nathan Eagle's Forum Nokia Blog
EPROM featured on the CBC
natecow | 06 April, 2009 06:13
I was recently interviewed about my work in Africa for the CBC radio program Spark. Here is a link to the interview and a description of the show:
On this week's show, Nora chats with Nathan Eagle about designing mobile phone applications in Africa. Nathan is an MIT research scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
In October, Nathan plans to launch txteagle, a project that sends people small, simple tasks to do on their cell phones. Nathan observed that you can spend a lot of time waiting in Africa, and that people could put that time to better use by working on their mobile phones. What kind of work are we talking about? Nathan has posted some samples on the txteagle site.
He goes on to talk about some of the genius ideas for new mobile phones apps he's seeing in Africa and highlights one example where mobile phones are changing the way Rwandans pay for their electricity (9:05 in the audio below). He also gives his two cents on what the future holds for mobile tech.
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