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3 things Mobile Web East Africa taught us about the state of tech in Africa

Last week, All Amber hosted the third Mobile Web East Africa conference in Nairobi. The event, which allows key industry players to share ideas, addressed various issues ranging from the mobile film industry, the work of NGOs in Africa, to startup developers demonstrating their wares.

This helped provide greater insight into the mobile market both in East Africa and the rest of the continent; proving that Africa should be considered as one of the most important up-and-coming players in the global mobile market.

The conference established that by 2016, there will be over a billion mobile phones in Africa, of which, 991 million will be feature phones. And because most of Europe and the United States are pre-occupied with developing smart phone applications, Africa has become a unique and open market for mobile developers.

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