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Yoza: Launch and one week

August 30, 2010

On the 22nd of August Yoza Cellphone Stories launched. Yoza is the flagship project of m4Lit, which I lead. Here is the press release, the short description of the project, and some very last-minute…

Written by: Steve Vosloo

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Book-Poor, but Mobile Phone-Rich? Look to M-Novels

August 26, 2010

Book-Poor, but Mobile Phone-Rich? Look to M-Novels is a guest blog post that I wrote for the World Bank’s Educational Technology Debate. It is part of a broader debate around The Shallows: What…

Written by: Steve Vosloo

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Open Governance – How can open communities make good decisions and get stuff done?

August 18, 2010

At Peer 2 Peer University, we pride ourselves in being an open education community. I have a fairly good idea what it means for content or software to be open, but I find the complex human dynamics…

Written by: Philipp Schmidt

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  • Tags: , governance structures, , open communities, open governance, Orgs

m4Lit on the BBC (again!) and at the World Bank

July 19, 2010

June was a good month for m4Lit. It were featured on the BBC for the second time: I was interviewed on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet (listen live). The episode featured other…

Written by: Steve Vosloo

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m4Lit in The Daily Maverick

July 8, 2010

Mobile books the South African way is a piece written by Mandy de Waal in The Daily Maverick about m4Lit. It includes some quotes from me about the project and our plans for the future. I’m…

Written by: Steve Vosloo

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It’s about reading, not paper vs pixels

May 31, 2010

In Nadine Gordimer advocates book over screen, the Mail & Guardian reports on a defense of the printed book against the onslaught of technology by Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate and one of…

Written by: Steve Vosloo

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