Simple, efficient and effective, the application developed by M-Farm allows rural Kenyans to know the market price of the products they sell in regional markets. They can also use the service to transport their crops or buy fertilizer.And the best thing about it is the business was built by three young women still in school, after a […]
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Campaigning against car horns in Casablanca – Francis Pisani
Selma Benjelloun is slim, shy, discreet and determined. She needs to be in order to enter into a fight with this city’s deafening car horns (klaxons in French)– perhaps the wost that I’ve ever heard, and not only in terms of noise. Almost as soon as you land, your ears are assaulted with urgent honking.But […]
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Campaigning against car horns in Casablanca – Francis Pisani
Selma Benjelloun is slim, shy, discreet and determined. She needs to be in order to enter into a fight with this city’s deafening car horns (klaxons in French)– perhaps the wost that I’ve ever heard, and not only in terms of noise. Almost as soon as you land, your ears are assaulted with urgent honking.But […]
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How do you ask the innovation question? – Francis Pisani
Casablanca — Lean, sporting a light beard, Adnane Charafeddine has the intense look of someone with a vision. And yet, when he shows me his method of innovating, I’m surprised – his art is copying. That’s how he created QuelleVoiture.ma (What a Car), a social site bringing together car buyers and sellers. Buyers can find info on cars […]
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How do you ask the innovation question? – Francis Pisani
Casablanca — Lean, sporting a light beard, Adnane Charafeddine has the intense look of someone with a vision. And yet, when he shows me his method of innovating, I’m surprised – his art is copying. That’s how he created QuelleVoiture.ma (What a Car), a social site bringing together car buyers and sellers. Buyers can find info on cars […]
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Mexico: Social networks against narcos – Francis Pisani
Mexican web users are perhaps in the process of creating, however gropingly, something new: using social networks to make up for the absence of civil society acting against the government and against narcos. Paradoxically, it is those in power who, with their preoccupation with social networks, show the phenomenon’s power.First, institutions. In the beginning of […]
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Mexico: Social networks against narcos – Francis Pisani
Mexican web users are perhaps in the process of creating, however gropingly, something new: using social networks to make up for the absence of civil society acting against the government and against narcos. Paradoxically, it is those in power who, with their preoccupation with social networks, show the phenomenon’s power.First, institutions. In the beginning of […]
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Yumbling part 2: When Capital Fears Risk – Francis Pisani
Mexico DF – Ricard Suarez found the money he needed for launching Yumbling, his site that aggregates all possible information on entertainment in Mexico City, while incorporating social-media and gaming layers. He found enough to pay developers for a year and to launch his first applications for the web, iPhone, Nokia and Blackberry in mid-September. But now […]
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Yumbling part 2: When Capital Fears Risk – Francis Pisani
Mexico DF – Ricard Suarez found the money he needed for launching Yumbling, his site that aggregates all possible information on entertainment in Mexico City, while incorporating social-media and gaming layers. He found enough to pay developers for a year and to launch his first applications for the web, iPhone, Nokia and Blackberry in mid-September. But now […]
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Yumbling part 1: A Mexican Startup – Francis Pisani
Mexico, DF — With his light eyes and strawberry blonde hair, Ricardo Suarez does not fit the stereotypical image of someone from Mexico. Same for what he does. On September 12th, he launched an application that aims to become “Mexico’s entertainment reference,” as he explained to me at The Green Corner, a restaurant café in […]