September 3, 2007
Mobile Phoning from Uganda thanks to kiwanja.net
Ken Banks, one of textually's favorite people, founder of Kiwanja.net - where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development - is in Uganda at the moment doing workin with Grameen.
In his own words:
"During my spare time I’ve been snapping photos of various mobile-related things, and thought that since you liked my earlier ones of South African mobile phone shops, you might like these.
-- The first one is of a car battery converted to charge mobile phones, in a village not far outside Kampala. Very clever in a place where electricity isn’t guaranteed.
-- The second one is called a ‘BodaPhone’, named after Vodafone, obviously! Boda bodas are the bikes people use to get around on, so it’s a nice friendly play on words. But very clever, again. =)
-- The last one is a village phone, this one taken in a rural area. This phone is actually a mobile (you can see the aerial) - some operators prefer them because they are bigger, stronger and have longer battery life.
It’s funny hearing people ask for bigger phones, rather than back home when all we seem to want is smaller and smaller things.
More pictures in Kiwanja.net mobile gallery.
Thank you Ken!
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