Four short links: 15 May 2012

Mobile Money (The Economist) — Many people know that “mobile money”—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile money most frequently are in Africa, and mobile banking in some of them has reached extraordinary levels.
Akka — Apache-licensed Java high-performance concurrency library built around the concept of “actors“. (via Hacker News)
Pykka — actors in Python. (via Hacker News)
Loom.io Project — help crowdfund a collaborative decision-making tool. They’re using it as they build the tool, and it’s the implementation of a process they use in real life. I know many organisations who need a free open-source web application that helps groups make better decisions together. You should probably read more about the interesting company Enspiral which is behind loom.io.

Mobile Money, Actors in java, Actors in python, and a Decision-Making Tool