From ICT4D.at

Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath is currently working at Yahoo! Brickhouse. In the past he worked on odeo.com and Fire Eagle. His business card says he is a hacker & builder of things. We met this really interesting technologist and activist at the MobileActive08 conference in Johannesburg, where he shared his thoughts on emerging technologies with us.

One of the things he points out in the interview below is that mobile innovation in developing countries is currently restricted by costs. Text messages are a very powerful medium, but projects that rely on text messages are too expensive for actual deployment. In the interview he explains why many amazing projects around the world thus remain pilot projects.

Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath is also the co-author of the upcoming O'Reilly book Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails. He blogs about technology and politics at anarchogeek.com.

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