1. Social Venture Acquisitions
It happens in every industry, A few companies are breakout successes and everyone wants piece. In this case Clean Tech and Social Ventures ‘doing good’ will increasingly be targeted by larger corporate entities with deep pockets. Think General Motors buying Optimal Energy (the alternative energy car-maker) or Microsoft buying a group like [...]

What are some of the best Africa related podcasts? Well, we’re quite partial to our own Appfricast, but if our show isn’t your thing, here are eight other podcasts (in no particular order) worth following. We found several shows that were either apparently defunct or that updated too infrequently to be counted. For instance the [...]

While the world struggles to cope with Darfur, another crisis brews nearby…

The conflict in Darfur still may not be getting the attention it deserves, but another crisis in Sudan threatens to become the country’s newest humanitarian catastrophe. The flash point is Southern Kordofan, a state created in 2005 to encompass the Nuba Mountains, just north [...]

It seems the world is moving away from a U.S. centric web…

For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place - the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil [...]

Beppe Grillo’s thoughts on South Korean company Daewoo and the ‘neocolonial’ invasion of Madagascar…

What have Madagascar and South Korea got in common? On the face of it, nothing. The former is a country in development, the second is an economic power. One is in Africa, the other in Asia. The Malagasy have uncontaminated land. The [...]

There’s a meme spreading through the African blogosphere asking the bloggers of the continent to explain why they do what they do. Personally I blog about African tech because I’ve been on the other side. Growing up in the U.S. there’s a lot of cynicism, distrust and fear when it comes to Africa. If you [...]

So this weekend I’ve been exploring the Chinese social web from here in Uganda. With the aid of translate.google.com, a few Firefox translation extensions and my knowledge of PHP and HTML, I’ve managed to do pretty good. How does knowing a little code help? Well often at the bottom of these sites, you’ll find that [...]

So this week Appfrica is rolling out a new mash-up project called FricaFact. This one is all about educating the masses about Africa using social media tools…specifically Twitter. The app is pretty simple. Right now it displays a different fact each day about the continent, it’s countries, it’s people, it’s culture. Want to [...]

What better measure of society is there than through the fiction it creates? In 1988 the Japanese animation feature film AKIRA was released to the world envisioning the near future of a 2019 neo-Tokyo. At the time, there was nothing like it, most animated films (especially those from Disney and Warner Brothers) targeted kids and [...]

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