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Bev Clark

MobileActive in South Africa

Brenda Burrell, technical director of Kubatana.net has attended the two previous MobileActive conferences and has found them very useful. It was at the 2005 MobileActive Conference in Toronto that Brenda first discussed the idea of Freedom Fone and where she was able to meet developers to help her make her idea a reality. In 2007 Brenda traveled to Sao Paulo as a participant at MobileActive. In 2008 Kubatana submitted a request to MobileActive to facilitate a presentation on Freedom Fone with a live demo. We were pleased to be accepted and three members of Kubatana attended MobileActive in Johannesburg. The...

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Bev Clark

Life in a Failed State Certainly Isn't Boring

It's hard to convey how important it is for those of us "left behind" to vicariously experience the richness of these networking opportunities.

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