Silicon Valley, USA and Kampala, Uganda – The first Facebook Developer Garage to be held in Uganda is set to take place in Kampala on December 13, 2008, co-hosted by Samasource and Makerere University and supported by Facebook. The event will serve as a forum for students and professional software developers in Ghana to learn [...]

So a few months ago when I began organizing the Kampala Facebook Garage I was initially a little daunted. I was worried bout getting the word out and finding people interested enough and skilled enough to make it a success. Then Barcamp Kampala happened and I was reassured that there were tons of [...]

This week marks the beginning of the Asia-Africa Open Source Conference in Jakarta…
Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their commitment to using Open Source (OS) software instead of licensed software which was mostly being monopolized by big companies, a research and technology official said.
The resolve to use OS software [...]

MiniBarCampKampala is gathering to share and learn about mobile phone innovation happening in both Uganda and the international sphere. Please come and share your thoughts and innovations.
The event will feature discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Want to know how to connect a cell phone to a computer and send text messages? Curious about who [...]

Kelele was announced to a room of well over two hundred people at BarCamp Africa a few days ago. It’s big news as it’s the first time anyone has attempted to organize a pan-African conference aimed at web 2.0, mobile, and new media. The date is scheduled for August 13, 2009 which puts [...]

Panels covered include “Pitching Your Social Enterprise”, “West African SME’s”, “New African Capital”, “Money and Meaning” and “Building a Business Plan”
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When Google flew me in to represent Appfrica.org at Barcamp Africa I could never have known how much the trip would actually impact my work. There was a lot of one degree of separation going on while I was in the Bay area. For instance, I met my business partners in Question Box [...]

Clip from the panel with Guy Kawasaki (Garage Tech Ventures, Entrepreneur Magazine), David Kobia (Ushahidi), Martin Fisher (KickStart), and Jon Gosier (me, Appfrica)…
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The 2008 PICNIC technology conference in Amsterdam wrapped up last weekend and featured a whole day of events devoted to Africa dubbed ‘Surprising Africa‘. Ethan Zukerman, Binyavanga Wainaina, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Erik Hersman and many others presented on topics ranging from film and fashion to mobile device penetration, local innovation and entrepreneurship. Africa News has [...]

A few months back I asked the readers of this blog, friends and colleagues to vote for Appfrica’s participation in the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Well, you guys delivered big and “Appfrica” is now an official panel at SXSWi2009! South by Southwest Interactive has become one of the [...]