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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 [May 3 - 9, 2009]
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This week I spent some time highliting the achievements and applications of the people working Appfrica Labs. We took several of our ideas public this week to give everyone some idea of the types of innovation coming out of our incubator. Not to mention the fact that I think my staff are brilliant and deserving of the spotlight for a while.
Spotlight on Appfrica Labs
Life As a Software Developer in Uganda
It all started last week with the most recent Appfricast. Featuring nearly thw whole team, developers here offer insigh as to what they need, why they work here and what they hope to accomplish.
What is Question Box?
Question Box is an initiative I’ve been rooting for ever since I heard of it. Luckily for me, I got to join the project very early. Here’s some background on the project, and examples of how Ugandans are creating the software solutions to solve their own problems.
Answerbird Flies High
Felix Kitaka’s Answerbird attempts to crowdsource questions and answers in Uganda using the social network everyone here already knows… Facebook. It’s not hard to see how effective a tool it might be if interfaced with something like Questionbox!
Status.ug: Tell The World What’s Up!
A local mobile portal for Facebook also developed by Felix Kitaka.
Deploying OhmSMS in Uganda
An application so simple that it could be deployed anywhere in the world and be just as relevant, and useful.
Editorials
How to Save Money As An African Startup
It’s not cheap to startup a business here, how can you save capital? Find out.
Web 2.0 Shutting Out Developing Countries
Developing nations are apparently hard to monetize and difficult to scale. I say it’s because some companies refuse to look at the obvious solutions.
Microsfot Validates Ushahidi, Invalidates Vine
Vine is a great tool that could very well change the world. Unfortunately Micrsoft has destroyed nearly all of the potential usefulness by making it proprietary.
Appfrica Around the Web
Ben White profiles my staff members Emmanuel Oluka and Jerry Opolot