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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 [...]

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 [...]

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It’s been another busy week. Appfrica launched [...]

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 recently wrote an article called “The Popularity of Programming Languages in Africa” where data from Google Insights was used to show how frequently different countries in the were world were searching for information related to various programming languages. Using that data (which was really only looking at the top ten countries representing each [...]

This is a rather long article and is available for download in HTML and PDF format for reading offline.

The combined populations of China and the fifty-three countries that make up Africa account for well over 2 billion people or 1/3 the population of the entire world. The African continent holds the people of three [...]

Ethiopia’s national network will be built by China’s second-largest telecoms gear maker, ZTE. The network, which will allow Ethiopia Telecommunications Corp to provide next-generation network services, will cover 14 major cities in the east African country including the capital, Addis Ababa, ZTE said in a statement. Read the rest at IT News Africa.

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AfriMonitor is a new venture aimed at aggregating data about growing African markets….

After many years of working on products with African culture as a central subject, I am again launching a product which I think is missing in the marketplace. Throughout my years as an entrepreneur, I have had to conduct endless market research [...]