MedAfrica.org, a startup set to launch October 1, wants to change the way health information is shared in developing countries. Company founders Steve Mutinda and Mbugua Njihia want to build a profitable business that also serves a social good by delivering medical information to mobile phones. READ MORE
Sub-Saharan Africa is booming, writes TechCrunch’s Jon Evans, who has spent nearly a year traveling in the region. One factor, he says, is the revolution Africa is seeing in the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), which, in some places, has taken communications “straight from talking talking drums to cell phones, leapfrogging land lines entirely.” READ MORE
