A number of pretty interesting job openings in the African Tech/Web/Software space this month…

Geographic Specialist - Nairobi, Kenya - Google.com
Google, the world’s leading search engine, is extending their local team in Nairobi, Kenya. The objective of this local team is to promote local content generation, as well as further the introduction and adoption of several [...]

Intel, the inventor of microprocessors and the world’s largest semiconductor company has signed a contract with Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and Alcatel Lucent to offer Kenya the first mobile WiMax trail using Wimax 802.16e technology. The technology will provide wireless broadband service at affordable prices, sending data up to 75mbps without cables. According to [...]

Africapractice published this press release that reveals high expectations for African businesses in 2009:

Business leaders are still bullish about Africa for 2009. africapractice asked business leaders with interests in Africa about their investment plans for 2009; 62 per cent plan to expand significantly, while 38 per cent said they will expand slightly.
The global economic crisis [...]

Google was one of the biggest backers of cleantech companies last year and Eric Schmidt recently revealed that he was advising the Obama campaign on policies related to energy. As of today Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has announced that he’s backing the Obama campaigns bid for office.
Google was the second [...]

How is the world economic ’slowdown’ affecting Africa? In Kenya it’s hitting the IT sector hard:
Kenyan Technology firms are bracing for a period of reduced spending on solutions as the global economic crisis continues to claim more casualties among financial firms, who are often the biggest spenders on IT.
In a report today Business Daily [...]

Google’s efforts to map Africa have been increasing significantly over the past year. Little more than a year ago Googling Kampala, Uganda returned a blank green screen indicating the area was nothing but forests. In other words, according to Google Maps the city didn’t exist. More recently, however, the detail of maps [...]

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Dreaming of an Internet Co-Op
One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In [...]

ICT spending is increasing in East Africa and it shows no signs of slowing down…
The Kenyan government has strongly indicated its support for ICTs by announcing that it will grant $2.5million towards development of local online content, media reports said today.
According to Business Daily, the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya’s ICT Board, Paul Kukubo said [...]

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 [...]

In “Is Developmental Aid Stifling Africa’s Growth?” I presented Andrew Mwenda’s argument that the key to Africa’s future growth will be free trade and responsible governance, not developmental aid. It seems that this meme is getting more popular by the day.
The African Executive writes in “Aid: Losing Global Popularity?“…
The world seems to [...]