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Shop offering M-Pesa services in Voi, Kenya.

Banking

Money flows with M-Pesa

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by Kilasa Mtambalike
The real revolution happened on the streets.

Social media

Not as soft as jasmine

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by Aya Chebbi
Smart-phone displays relating to farm information.

Smallholder farms

Peer pressure

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by Hendrik Knoche
by HS Jamadagni
by PR Sheshagiri Rao
Filipino web satire with Nazi leaders Goering and Himmler appreciating the National Bureau of Investigation as their agency

Internet

Putting a check on leaders

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

E-governance

Great opportunities

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by Maja Bott
by Bianca Clausen
Sokodé: Marketplaces will be expanded and modernised with concern for people’s wishes.

Mobile telephony

Citizen participate via SMS

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by Michael Ruffert
Internet cafés spread fast in the 1990s.

Expanding market

Business dimensions

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by Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
The Office of the Auditor General monitors public spending on infrastructure in Uganda.

Stemming corruption

Government watchdogs

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by Michael Ruffert
Patricia Pinha (centre) with fishers on Lake Piratuba.

Amazonia

Participatory conservation

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by Hannah Milberg
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