Following the Facebook Dev Garage in Uganda, I interviewed Appfrica Labs and Makerere University Student Moses Mugisha, successful Ugandan web entrepreneur Benge Solomon King from NodeSix and Peace CORP volunteer/developer Thad Caraski to get their individual perspectives on the event.
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Two Ugandan programmers, Harry Barry (22) and Seruyinda Simon (24), have built an Internet platform to enable investors to trade virtual stocks online. The platform, called Libre Exchange is set to be operational in 2009. It will allow users to start trading virtual shares from seven mock companies and will later go on to [...]

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So a few months ago when I began organizing the Kampala Facebook Garage I was initially a little daunted. I was worried bout getting the word out and finding people interested enough and skilled enough to make it a success. Then Barcamp Kampala happened and I was reassured that there were tons of [...]

Alan Patricof of the Huffington Post writes about his time spent in Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Abuja, Nigeria following the election of Barrack Obama to Presidency of the United States. In it talks about the growing middle class of Africa and what Obama represents for them…
While Africa clearly has a very high level [...]

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, [...]

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Appfrica is a project that was started by myself, an individual living and working in Uganda. There’s a real desire expressed by students here to be able to learn and work with the latest technologies. In fact, it was one of the things specifically mentioned to me by local students at Barcamp Kampala [...]

Day 2 went just as planned. Code was shared, tips were given and presentations filled the day as the first ever Barcamp in Uganda came to a close. This was the day specifically targeting developers and programmers and it worked. There were presentations on JQuery, Subversion, DNS Vulnerabilities, Social Protocols for Web Apps, [...]

This morning I accessed my PayPal account for the first time since arriving in Uganda only to be asked a number of security questions to verify my identity. I’m not sure if this was done because I’m in Uganda or if it’s simply because I was accessing my account from outside of my home [...]