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The Open Source Embargo
Or “Separate but Equal hits the Open Source Community”.
I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites ...
Ron Nixon on Following Disappearing Aid Money
Where does all the aid money sent to Africa actually go? Ron Nixon of the New York Times attempts to answer that very question with ...
Roscoe Nsumbuga: Banking the Unbanked Using Biometrics
Roscoe Nsumbuga of Mapswitch on using biometric identification cards used as part of a money transfer service that is enabling millions of Ugandans to access ...
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The Poor: The Last Untapped Market
When it comes to innovating for the poor, the leading technology companies of the world have either failed or simply aren’t interested. Aside from a ...
Zain Offers Relief, Free Money Transfer to Philippines
Zain’s money transfer service between Bahrain and the Philippines has launched free money transfers between the countries in order to provide relief to victims of ...
Netbooks for Africa: IBM and Canonical Team Up
IBM is teaming up with Canonical to reduce the costs of netbooks. They plan to take advantage of web based applications and the cloud to ...
Google to Liberate User Data, Improve Data Portability
Data portability on the web is a problem. Want to leave Facebook? No sweat, just delete your account. Want to leave Facebook and keep ...
Reaction to the NYTimes Profile on African Startups
The mainstream media often has a hard time highlighting the good going on in Africa because there’s so much perceived and actual tragedy here to ...
eBillMe, Another PayPal Alternative and a Great Idea Waiting to be Adapted
Continuing our, ah, continuing discussion of PayPal alternatives in sub-Saharan Africa, a new service just launched in the States, allowing credit card-less consumers to pay ...
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