The African Mobile Story edited by Knud Erik Skouby and Idongesit Williams, River Publishers, Aalborg, Denmark 2014.
Here is a book that should answer everything you ever wanted to know about mobile in Africa. It is written by practitioners and academics who have on the ground experience about mobile in Africa. It provides the most up to date assessments about opportunities, challenges, and what works and what doesn’t in mobile in Africa.
The book is a project of Aalborg University’s Center for Communication, Media and Information Studies and the World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF).
The African Mobile Story is edited by Knud Erik Skouby and Idongesit Williams and published by River Publishers, Aalborg, Denmark. Order the book. ISBN: 9788793102637
Here are the chapters in the book
Policy considerations
Case studies on market liberalization in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya
Mobile regulation, technologies and markets
Prepaid mobile market in Africa
Vulnerabilities of Mobile Devices
M-Health Solutions for HIV/AIDS
Mobile ICT and Education
How farmers use mobile in Africa
Mobile in local government in Nigera
Using mobile phones for environment protection
Mobile and sustainable energy generation
Mobile and intelligent transport systems (ITS)
Here are the authors
Daniel Michael Okwabi Adjin
Nana Kofi Annan
Enrico Calandro
Pertpetual Crentsil
Godfred Frempong
Nuhu Gapsio
Allison Gillwald
Patrick Ohemeng Gyaase
Anders Henten
Abdullah Isah
Gail Krantzberg
Benjamin Kwofie
Alejandro Islas Lopez
Roslyn Layton
George Orleans Ofori-Dwumfou
Kwadso Owusu
Kenneth Tsivor
Musa Usman
Joseph Wilson