Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project

Category: General | Date: Sep 17 2008 | By: Seamus

I have been thinking quite a bit recently about how mobile communication technology can interface with the management of wildlife, problem animal control etc. We are heavily dependent on mobile phones, but it is interesting to think for a minute about how africans are customising mobile techology to suit their needs, rather than take off-the-shelf tech solutions. Martin and Sophie for instance are grabbing GSM components and with the addition of a GPS and a pinch of this and that, are manufacturing state-of the-art wildlife GPS collars (South Africans are African too by the way - and so are Egyptians). Check out some links on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog (My Heart’s in Accra) for more food for thought on this subject. Thanks Nomad for the heads-up.