I must apologise for not posting more often. I am surprised at how difficult it is to find a scanner while away from home. Mobiles, on the other hand, are everywhere and we are becoming more dependent on them by the second. At a recent research communications workshop at the Biannual AERC meeting in Nairobi we asked a groupd of researchers about their internet access. Most (out of 30) said that they had limited internet access: no more than 1 or 2 hours a day.

But mobiles... this man was calling a taxi driver who was sitting in his car about 10 meters away from the Intercontinental's main entrance.