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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 ...
Best of Appfrica 2009
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, for individuals and companies alike. For Appfrica it’s no exception as we profile the ...
TEDx Week
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
Also posted in Interviews Tagged bandwidth, brandwidth, emerging economies, entrepreneurship, fibre, investment, language, localization, m-money, ted, tedx, video Leave a comment
Infostate of Africa
People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards ...
Also posted in Infographics, Technology Tagged africa, data, data visualization, infographic, statistics 26 Comments
Coded in Country | Stoking Local Innovation
Can institutions [be they international organizations, companies, universities, foundations or governments] enable innovation in local technology industries? We explored this question on a rainy ...
Asynchronous Info, Disjointed Data and Crisis Reporting
The recent riots in Kampala have revealed a couple of things about the flow of news and how people behave in crisis situations. We still ...
PayPal Alternatives for African Entrepreneurs
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s rant about PayPal’s lack of availability in sub-Saharan Africa.
Although PayPal is ubiquitous in the States and Europe, there are many ...
Also posted in Business Tagged 419, africa, e-commerce, oh the unfairness of it all, payment processor, paypal 13 Comments
In Search of… African Sci-Fi Novels
I have to admit when I watched this scene from THE MATRIX RELOADED with all the dancing people in Zion, I couldn’t help but wonder ...
PayPal’s Electronic Profiling
I don’t know whether it’s laziness, callousness, indifference or all three but PayPal, intentional or not, are sending a very strong message to the rest ...
Alternative Models for OLPC?