Tag Archives: Tanzania

Mobile phone culture in Zanzibar

Great trailer for the documentary “Hello Africa” (2009) on mobile phone culture in Zanzibar:

The complete 42-minute documentary is both fun and inspiring – truly worth watching:

Hello Africa from UZI FILM on Vimeo.

Shared thanks to a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA).
More info on the documentary here

Mobile Banking: The Ticket to the Clinic

CNN’s Marketplace Africa has an interesting report on how M-Pesa (Vodafone/com) is used by doctors in Tanzania to pay patients’ bus fares to the clinic. Via Textually