Africa 2.0

Russell Southwood worked as a journalist before becoming one of the three founders of Comedia. He later founded the consultancy and research practice, Balancing Act, which has focused on telecoms, internet and media in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 20 years. He has previously written <em>Less Walk, More Talk - How Celtel and the Mobile Phone Changed Africa</em>, and with Kelly Wong, <em>Building a Data Ecosystem for Food Security and Sustainability, Agtech V3.0</em>.

In this episode he talks with Owen Kelly about his recent book <em>Africa 2.0</em> which, its publisher says, “provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans, and the impact they have had on their lives. … It analyses how the mobile phone fundamentally changed communications in sub-Saharan Africa and the ways Africans have made these technologies part of their lives, opening up a very different future”.