Balancing Act (London)
Website: http://balancingact-africa.com/
May 10, 2012
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Africa: Buni TV - a New Vod Platform for African Independent Producers [interview]
African independent producers have three major challenges: getting known globally, finding the right distribution network and getting some money back. Read more »
May 06, 2012
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Access to reliable and transparent information helps markets work effectively. There is plenty of mobile subscriber data for Africa, whether from company reporting requirements or... Read more »
April 27, 2012
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Tanzania: Govt Cuts Internet Access Prices
Tanzania is making big strides in rolling out its national backbone and connecting to all of its neighbours. Also at the beginning of April this year, it dropped its bandwidth... Read more »
April 26, 2012
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Africa: One of South Africa's Top Three Production Houses Opens Office in Los Angeles
Established in Cape Town, Film Afrika Worldwide is launching an office in Los Angeles to be headed up by CEO David Wicht. Read more »
April 20, 2012
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Africa: Umuntu Media's Mimiboard Looks to Create Social Engagement for Traditional Media and a New Monetizable Business Model [analysis]
Profitable online business models are hard to come by in Africa because although the number of Internet users has shot up, it's still hard to get a critical mass of regular users... Read more »
April 13, 2012
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Africa: African Games Sector Stutters Into Life but Needs Some Oxygen to Help It Breathe
The available African consumer surveys show there is an audience for computer and mobile phone games but there is little evidence that anyone is much focused on trying to produce... Read more »
April 12, 2012
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Africa: Nollywood Film Producers Caught in a Squeeze
Nollywood may be the planet's third biggest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood but it is feeling the squeeze. Despite the brio with which it churns out new films, times... Read more »
April 05, 2012
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Africa: Welcome to the Future of Telecoms in Africa [analysis]
At the end of March, Gateway Communications invited a panel of people and a selected industry audience to look at the "Future of African connectivity". With the exception of a... Read more »
April 01, 2012
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Africa: Broadcasters Open Up Space to African Sport [interview]
There is a growing interest globally among broadcasters for African sports and for African football in particular. Last week Balancing Act interviewed the two directors of African... Read more »
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Africa: Supplying Diesel to the BTS - an Every Day Nightmare for African Mobile Operators
The business of running a mobile operation in Africa in comparison to Europe or any developed countries should be roughly the same but there are major differences and this starts... Read more »
March 23, 2012
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South Africa: New Bid to Create Local Silicon Valley
America's Silicon Valley is a combination of different factors all bought together in one place. It is a fearsome combination of experienced people, capital and ideas. Several... Read more »
March 16, 2012
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Africa: Mobile Data Revenue - the Long Road Ahead for African Mobile Operators
Back in December 2011 Balancing Act published an article on mobile data revenue which highlighted that data revenues for mobile operators in Sub-Sahara Africa remain tiny in most... Read more »
March 15, 2012
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Africa: Getting African Films Seen By School-Children - Africa in Motion On a Scottish Tour
There's a strange paradox operating around African film. Outside of Nollywood, which is largely telenovelas-style episodes, only relatively small number of people see African film,... Read more »
March 02, 2012
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Africa: Africa's ICT Entrepreneurs - On the Brink of the Long Summer of Love
For over a decade, Africa's ICT entrepreneurs have struggled to make sense of how to innovate and make money on a continent that was largely connected to the outside world by... Read more »
March 01, 2012
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Africa: Company Brings Brazilian Soccer to African Viewers
There are so few new TV sporting opportunities and even fewer football opportunities. Cote Ouest, the largest distributor of TV programmes across the African continent has sealed... Read more »
February 24, 2012
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Liberia: Mobile Money - Liberia Opts for Bank-Centric Approach but Gets Low Take Up
In August 2011, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) officially issued guidelines for mobile money services that will serve as the legal framework for the future rollout of mobile... Read more »
February 17, 2012
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Africa: Japanese ICT Giant Aims to Expand Its African Footprint
All too often the news is about what China or India are doing to expand into Africa. This week saw a Japanese company Hitachi Data Systems buy South Africa based IT company Shoden... Read more »
February 16, 2012
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Africa: Broadcasting Offers Huge Market to Investors
The African broadcasting market has been growing rapidly. New players have sprung up in liberalised markets and there is growing international interest from external investors. Read more »
February 12, 2012
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Africa: Low-End, Mobile Social Network Shoots to 2.5 Million Subscribers
The speed with which Facebook grew in Africa was startling but the story is now well-known. Latvian social network Eskimi is designed for low-end handset users and in a little over... Read more »
February 03, 2012
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Africa: Taxing International Inbound Calls
Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to... Read more »
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Liberia: Taxing International Inbound Calls - Is There a Middle Way?
Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to... Read more »
February 02, 2012
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Africa: Crowdsourcing Finance for Films - Maybe Local TV Programmes Should Follow
Africa has begun to join in the fun on crowdsourcing some of the funding for feature films. Crowdsourcing is getting lots of small contributions from individuals that taken... Read more »
January 27, 2012
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Africa: SMS Use Set to Decline as Smartphones Take Over
At the end of 2011, there were the first signs of smartphone use on SMS: for the first time in some countries, rather than the volume of SMS growing inexorably, it declined for the... Read more »
January 22, 2012
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Africa: Audience Research Ignorance Holds Back Africa
The rational version of how advertisers and advertising agencies buy airtime is through using media planning based on audience research. Africa's reality is very different with... Read more »
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Egypt: Vodafone Egypt Launches Mvno Bladna Targeted At Diaspora Living in Italy
Last Saturday in Milan, Vodafone Egypt threw in a free concert with the famous Egyptian singer Nancy Ajram to launch its first MVNO under the label "Bladna". Read more »
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