Industry News
What is Hive Colab?
Hive Colab is the newest co-working space on the East Africa scene. But what is it and where did it come from? To …U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
Last week representatives from the U.S. State Department Elana Berkowitz and Bruce Wharton reached out directly to innovators in East Africa to discuss the Apps …Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda
Google is hosting two events in September to teach the use of Google technologies and products in Africa… Google is dedicated to making the Internet relevant …Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot …TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
TED Global 2010 wrapped up last week in Oxford, UK. As a TED Senior Fellow, I’m lucky in that I’ve now attended three TED events …
The TED Phone
At TED Global in Oxford, UK this week TED and Nokia announced a partnership to bring TED talks to Africa and other developing parts of …Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and …A Fragmented Africa
When people think of Africa being fragmented, they usually think of things like politics, tribalism, and nepotism. They don’t tend to think about geology: Geologists …
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This Week in Appfrica [Oct 5 - 11, 2008]
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The bid news in African tech this week was all the conferences going on. Mobile Active, Barcamp Jozi and of course Barcamp Africa at Google Headquarters in the U.S.A all took place on the same day and were big successes. Thanks to Google’s flying me in and putting me up, I was able to attend Barcamp Africa which turned out to be really productive. Hopefully the attention doesn’t dissipate after it’s over. I met some very interesting people from Google and Google.org who really validated my work with Appfrica. The highlight for me was finally meeting Ken Banks (FrontlineSMS) and David Kobia (Ushahidi).
News
Appfrica on ReadWriteWeb
Recently, I was in touch with the staff of ReadWriteWeb (one of the most popular technology blogs in the world with 231,000+ daily readers) and I was asked to write a three part essay on the state of social media and web development in Africa. In some way it’s only fitting that RWW devote more attention to Africa. According to Alexa.com South Africa brings them 3.2% of their readers right after the U.K. (5.6%), India (6.7%), Germany (7.3%) and the U.S. (45.2%).
Interviews
Interview With Erik van Veen
Erik van Veen is the Chief Commercial Officer of MTN Uganda. When it comes to corporate executives, he just might also be one of the most approachable, down-to-earth people ever.
Editorials
Building an Army With Thumb Drives
I’ve been installing DamnSmallLinux and LAMP on Usb sticks so Ugandan students can work on web apps outside of school
From the Archives
The Costs of Doing Business in Africa
How much capital does a social entrepreneur need to start-up in Africa?
Links to Appfrica
Change.org Profile on Jon Gosier
Hudin Blogs about Barcamp Africa
Video of Barcamp Africa