There’s many things users would like to see improve with Twitter. Improved support for International mobile devices, reliability, a better UI, the list goes on. One thing we can deduce from the hundreds of applications that have been built by third parties using the website’s API, is that there are many people with great [...]

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‘If it will work in Africa, it will work anywhere.‘ That’s the new mantra among African tech enthusiasts thanks to Erik Hersman. With that in mind I’ve been brainstorming about ideas that I think would work exceptionally well in Africa. Since I’m only one man with way too much on his [...]

This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. and Europe, in most cases not for the lack of trying. It’s purely observational and not meant to be too critical. These are all services I use everyday, [...]

One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In an area where internet costs are high, IT resources are low and educated workers are sparse, there’s not a whole lot of communication between the various groups. Even among [...]

Ethan Zuckerman recently wrote about the most recent Russia/Georgia conflicts and the failure of the Georgian blogger community to tell unbiased stories about what was occurring.
Two good friends have taken the blogosphere to task for its failures during the conflict. Rather than rise to the defense of Georgian, Russian, Ossetian and global bloggers, I wanted [...]

Robert Kaplan recently wrote this take on African development in the 21st century. The Current:
Oil production is already booming, and food production may follow suit. Africa is the only part of the world without a green revolution. Scientific breakthroughs that tripled crop yields in Eurasia and Latin America have bypassed Africa’s, mainly because no single [...]

I grew up in the United States where I spent many days locked in my bedroom with stacks of comic books both contemporary and old. Since moving to Uganda, I’ve found a new appreciation for comic books as a tool to encourage reading and to promote literacy.

At the time I read all kinds [...]

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who does a lot of business in Africa. He mentioned one of the things he hates most about doing anything here is the lack of customer service he experiences as a client of many African businesses both large and small. I hate [...]