Africa Quote by Ethan Zuckerman Download Open image “The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.” — Ethan Zuckerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Africa Mobile Mobile Phone Mobile phones Phenomenal Phones
In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way to get… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
People tend to not forgo purchasing a cellphone. In many places in the world, the first time they get on the Internet is through… — Steve Mollenkopf Copy Share Image
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it,… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working… — Tom Lister, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image