BBC's Head: Web 2.0 More Disruptive to Media

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BBC's Head: Web 2.0 More Disruptive to Media

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In a panel at We Media, Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC talked about how people in Africa often need to walk miles to get water and yet they have a mobile phone.  He thinks that level of cell phone penetration is poorly understood and underestimated.

Participants include Nik Gowing (BBC), with Akwe Amosu (OSI), Timothy Balding
(WAN), Wadah Khanfar (Al Jazeera), Nikesh Arora (Google), Mark Thompson
(BBC).