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News

Introducing Afridex: Crunchbase for Africa
Afridex is a start-up that indexes African business data, aggregates related information, and makes that data portable so that it can be embedded on blogs and websites.

Microsoft Targets South African Piracy
When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry about, although it could be argued that if people paid for the software they use the market could grow. Despite this, Microsoft recently went after a major reseller of pirated software in South Africa…

Inside Google’s New South African Office
Primary colors, executive chairs and beanbags, Google takes it’s design scheme to Cape Town.

Africa 24 Seeks to Redefine Journalism
TED2007 fellow Salim Amin’s new project…

Google Launches Project 10¹⁰⁰
Google has announced its 10^100 project which crowd-sources the brainstorming of ideas that will ‘make the world a better place’. There will be ten winners competing for 10 million dollars in funding to launch their social entrepreneurial idea.

Editorials

The New York Times Validates Bloggers Everywhere
With it’s announcement that it would begin re-syndicating content from top bloggers, The New York Times alludes to the possibilities of journalism’s future.

OpenAfrica
OPML of 25 blogs for your RSS reader about Africa.

SMS ‘Not Ideal for Emergency Communications’
What was the purpose of this study?

Ten Web Applications for Bloggers in Developing Countries
Web based tools that make my job as a ‘third world’ blogger easier.

From the Archives

Where are the African Designers?
The world often acknowledges contributions from designers and artists from all over the world but Africa seems to be overlooked as a pool for talent. Still, there are world class fashion-designers, web designers, typographers, animators and more that cll the continent home. Who are they? Find out here.

From the Appfrica Network

Afridex.net
The Afridex.net live demo site.

One Degree North | American Expatriates Register to Vote in Uganda
Party for Americans living in Uganda who need to register for their abroad ballots.

GosDot | MagpieRSS Hack
Truncating Titles with fetch_rss()

About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

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