africa

Last month in Lagos, we brought together activists from the tech and oil worlds for a hackathon on the extractive industries of Nigeria. A hackathon, in the lexicon of computer geekery, is what... Read More – ‘Big Data decoding Big Oil: Nigerian corporate networks’.

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Africa and Spectrum 2.0If you follow communication infrastructure in Africa, you would be forgiven if you have begun to think of LTE as the promised land.... Read More – ‘Africa’s LTE Future’.

MTN Coverage Map from South Africa Adoption of Television White Spaces (TVWS) spectrum saw great progress in 2013.  The Google-sponsored Cape Town TVWS trial was completed and the results were an... Read More – ‘GSM and Dynamic Spectrum’.

OpenOil is launching a project to map the corporate supply chain in the oil sector, combining Big Data techniques and collaboration with domain experts on the ground. We are piloting this approach in... Read More – ‘Call for contributions: next generation oil governance’.

Malawi is not a country that often makes the international news, particularly not in the realm of connectivity. Economically poor and landlocked, it faces significant challenges in achieving... Read More – ‘Malawi Leaps Ahead With White Spaces Pilot’.