A fragmented digital agriculture ecosystem has been linked to the slow scale-out of digital platforms and other digital technology solutions for agriculture. This has undermined the prospects of digitalizing agriculture and increasing sectoral outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. We...

Using telephone call data assembled from a number of African countries, a model is employed to estimate the role of the regulatory environment as defined by the ITU. The GMM models predict that the absolute size of the impact of regulatory improvements on outgoing call volumes is probably larger...

With a 75% mobile penetration in Kenya, there has been a flurry of efforts to develop mobile applications for the common citizen who now owns a mobile device. However, the uptake of such mobile phone-based applications has been disappointingly low, especially at the so-called base of the pyramid...