The Samaritans is a Kenyan-produced mockumentary that satirises Western NGOs and their misguided attempts to provide foreign aid in African countries. But if conventional approaches don't work, could greater contextual awareness be the answer?

South African communities have embraced Callback, a free call request service, as a means of mobile communication. Utilised in an imaginative and unanticipated way, it signals the mutability of technology and technology culture in emerging markets.

With an increasingly diverse and affluent middle-class population and recent admission to the BRICS group of countries, South Africa is emerging as an exciting retail centre with its own distinctive consumer culture.

According to 'disruptive' new internet service provider FreedomPop, 'the internet is a right, not a privilege'. Starting with low-income Americans, can the company's 'freemium' super-fast broadband model challenge the internet's biggest players?