A few weeks ago Rafiq Phillips of MIH in South Africa and Webaddicts allowed me a chance to sneak peak a development version of the desktop social messaging Feedalizer, one which has since been released to the public and very well received. I decided to a quick Q&A with him to see how development [...]

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. I emailed Erik following a discussion on Uganda’s I-Network mailing-list about the costs of bandwidth in Uganda for consumers. Erik is a [...]

NodeSix is a very successful Ugandan webhosting company that has gone on to offer a number of value added services to its customers; including domain registration and parking, file hosting, and free-email. More recently they’ve started deploying a number of web applications through their ‘Sandbox’, an area for beta-testing new applications: a blog community, [...]

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Turi Munthe, CEO of the ‘citizen wire’ start-up Demotix about the future of reporting and social media’s place in journalism. You can read Part 1 of this interview here.
Appfrica: You’ve got a few competitors in this space.  What sets Demotix apart from them?
 
Turi Munthe: [...]

Crowd-sourcing news and citizen journalism outlets are on the rise. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Turi Munthe, CEO of the ‘citizen wire’ start-up Demotix about the future of reporting and social media’s place in journalism…
Appfrica: What is Demotix and how did it come about?
Turi Menthe: Remember all those [...]

Earlier this month I started hearing about a new social media site that would aim to crowd-source the opinions and views of the Ugandan public. ThisIsUganda.org (as of yet not up), aims to be the hub of citizen journalism in the country. I had the pleasure of talking to founders/editors Siena Sofia Magdalena Anstis, [...]

In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into the local Ugandan language of Luganda. At Campala2008 I had the pleasure of meeting Olweny San James, one of the student developers who participated in the Luganda-Firefox translation. [...]