Global Mobile News: From Android to Zambia

An end-of-the-day roundup of some news items that have accumulated in my browser...

-  Verizon will release Android-based devices

- The Knight Commission called broadband access as important as roads or electricity (h/t SBR)

- The NYT's Uganda bureau covers Africa's burgeoning demand for mobiles (h/t fritz)

- iBurst in South Africa offers pre-paid internet in the model of pre-paid wireless

- The Economist covers Uruguay's CEIBAL program

- A guest writer at OLPC News describes his experience introducing laptops in Zambia

- Ushahidi's platform is now available en Espanol

- Global Voices starts a conversation on the role of indigenous languages in ICTs (h/t Hall of Fame Intern Meg)

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