Bridging the digital divide in Africa, some examples

Doing some research on 'bridging the digital divide' for a case study on Youbridge, I stumbled across some interesting examples of initiatives in Africa.

This 78 year old woman is going from town to town with her laptop, teaching women about health and agricultural issues:



Rwanda is really making some giant leaps in digitizing education, and it shows that Nicholas Negroponte's vision of 'one laptop per child' is actually feasible:



...but this also made me think about the notion of 'reverse digital divide', where developing nations actually embrace new technologies much faster and much more enthusiastically than developed  countries.

This notion was also part of the conclusions of a recent PWC survey of global CEO's, where the reverse digital divide took a prominent place. According to this survey:

• Two-thirds of executives in emerging markets believe that mobile devices will become the standard for web applications over the next five years, compared with only one-half of execs in advanced economies. 
• Two-thirds of emerging market executives expect businesses to embrace social media and networking; just one-third of their industrial-market counterparts share this view.