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Education focus: the tech experiment that could change learning forever

Sugata Mitra couldn’t believe what happened when he left a computer in a slum: the children simply taught themselves. Now he is using his discoveries to revolutionise education. How much can children learn when you just leave them alone? It’s a question that’s been asked throughout the modern history of…
Sam Hill
November 25, 2015
Africa

MEF Connects Africa in pictures

Check out a selection of photos from the fourth annual MEF Connects Africa, recently held during AfricaCom week in Cape Town. The exclusive event, supported by Mozilla, Mahindra Comviva and Basebone was hosted in the penthouse suite of the luxurious Pepperclub hotel and brought together industry thought leaders for an…
Sam Hill
November 24, 2015
AfricaAnalytics

Developing the mobile ecosystem in Africa

There has been amazing growth in mobile internet access over the past few years and Africa is now primed to take advantage of the social and economic opportunities that mobile can bring to people across the continent. While connectivity is on the rise some challenges still remain for development, adoption…
Tim Banks
November 24, 2015
Stats Roundup

Mobile Market Stats Roundup: 23 November

How many Americans will do their Christmas shopping on mobile? How many Android open source project handsets have shipped in emerging markets? And what is the global mobile eye-tracking market thought to be worth from 2015 to 2020? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related…
Sam Hill
November 23, 2015
MEF LatAmPrivacyRegulation

Mobile privacy and data protection in Brazil

Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm advisor and partner at Focaccia, Amaral e Salvia Advogados, here explores the latest developments in the arena of digital privacy in Brazil, taking an in-depth look at the sweeping legal and regulatory changes coming into force as 180 million internet users become increasingly aware of the…
Sam Hill
November 23, 2015
PrivacySecurityTech Focus

Tech focus: mobile and biometric authentication

Heartbeat, iris, face, vein…every one is a potential identifier of you. So can biometric authentication rescue us from the hell of remembering passwords? Passwords and PINs are a nightmare. Criminals can phish for them or use ‘brute force’ attacks to try millions of combinations in split seconds until they find…
Tim Banks
November 18, 2015
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