Video: Alan Knott-Craig Jr and Gus Silber Discuss Mxit and Mobinomics

Creamer Media’s Shannon de Ryhove recently spoke to Mxit CEO Alan Knott-Craig Jr and journalist Gus Silber, co-authors of Mobinomics: Mxit and Africa’s Mobile Revolution, for Polity.org.

In the following video, Knott-Craig Jr and Silber reveal how their book, described as a “compelling and insightful journey into the new economy of mobile”, centres on the social networking platform Mxit and its potential to drive social and economic change in Africa.

According to Knott-Craig Jr, “something like Mxit totally changes the lives of people especially youngsters and people in low-income communities”:

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Book details

• Mobinomics: Mxit and Africa’s Mobile Revolution by Alan Knott-Craig Jr and Gus Silber
  EAN: 9781920434366
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