{"id":2529,"date":"2012-10-14T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:52:01","slug":"alan-knott-craig-mxit-african-mobile-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/14\/alan-knott-craig-mxit-african-mobile-tech","title":{"rendered":"Alan Knott Craig, Mxit &#038; African mobile tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know nothing about the African continent, having never stepped foot into it before (something I&#8217;m sure I will remedy within the next decade). I read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/ab45309c-0e28-11e2-8d92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz29KLHgzAh\">piece<\/a> in the FT Weekend about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanknottcraig.co.za\/\">Alan Knott Craig, Jr.<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alanknottcraig\">@alanknottcraig<\/a>), an entrepreneur in South Africa that runs <a href=\"http:\/\/site.mxit.com\/\">Mxit<\/a>. Mxit is impressive: 750 million messages a day served, plus allowing 581 million mobile users in Africa to make electronic payments.<\/p>\n<p>You have got to love Mxit&#8217;s mantra:\u00a0<strong>help more Africans make more money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a social entrepreneur at his best. I&#8217;ve already picked up his book titled:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00887OX2I\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00887OX2I&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=colincharles-20\">Mobinomics: Mxit and Africa&#8217;s Mobile Revolution<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00887OX2I\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, which I presume will be an interesting read.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a workaholic with suggestions on how to improve his work-life balance with 3 simple rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>no working after 6pm<\/li>\n<li>no working on Sundays; and<\/li>\n<li>no travelling for more than seven consecutive nights<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I just subscribed to his blog and followed him on Twitter and am totally eager to learn more about this amazing continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know nothing about the African continent, having never stepped foot into it before (something I&#8217;m sure I will remedy within the next decade). I read a piece in the FT Weekend about Alan Knott Craig, Jr. (@alanknottcraig), an entrepreneur in South Africa that runs Mxit. Mxit is impressive: 750 million messages a day served, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[1436,1437,1026,361,1438,975,1439,1435],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-africa","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-entrepreneur","tag-mobile","tag-mxit","tag-social","tag-social-entrepreneur","tag-work-life-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-EN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}