A primary concern across the continent is that of digital illiteracy. We attended the opening day of MRMW Africa 2015 recently and learned all about the continent's truly mobile consumer and the need to create more mobile content and services that are relevant, accessible and available to users in their own language.

We also look at the issue of social solidarity in times of tragedy, with Louise Marsland focusing her [TrendTalk] column on how the tragic events of the past few days in Paris and Beirut, have fuelled a debate about whose lives matter most on social media. While mainstream media has come in for this kind of criticism many times, Facebook's decision to enable its Safety Check in Paris has many debating "selective grief and outrage"...

On a positive front, Ngugi Mungai writes that start-ups are set to benefit in the Enterprise Kenya initiative, and will give innovators in the ICT sector a platform to commercialise their start-ups with project managers.

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