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Alternative Models for OLPC?

Alternative Models for OLPC?

At his Africa 3.0 panel at this year’s South By South West Project Diaspora’s Teddy Ruge critiqued the role the One Laptop Per Child Project … Read More

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The Open Source Embargo

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 … Read More

Best of Appfrica 2009

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 … Read More

TEDx Week

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 … Read More

Infostate of Africa

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 … Read More

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The Best Smart Phones for Global Development

The growing needs for workers heading into the field are becoming far more high-tech than in years past. This is partly because of the new technologies and infrastructure available, and partly because of the need to record a greater number of details at once. That said, I decided to do a quick comparison of some of the better handsets available, to determine if there was one smartphone that was perfect for developmental aid organizations. Eventually, these will be the phones that make apps like this possible.

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Alternative Models for OLPC?

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At his Africa 3.0 panel at this year’s South By South West Project Diaspora’s Teddy Ruge critiqued the role the One Laptop Per Child Project has played in developing countries.

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On Lessons from Appfrica

One of the most rewarding aspects of running this company has been our International Fellows Program which invites developers from all over the world to Uganda to work alongside our staff as peers. The following post was written by one of our recent Fellows, Oliver Christopher Kaigwa Haas (we called him Ollie) who now works at Frog Design.

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A Global Passport for Innovators

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This morning Erik Hersman and I had a conversation about all the innovation spaces turning up across Africa. We agree that it’s incredibly exciting to see, and that it opens up the opportunity for many exciting possibilities. For instance, what if people with memberships at a hub in Ghana, could drop by a space in Kenya or Uganda?

It’s a solid idea that encourages cross-border business and collaboration, and one that Appfrica and iHub support. This would also offer groups in one country a way to deploy applications and test ideas in another, cheaply and in an environment that’s conductive to experimentation.

Erik and I have already agreed to explore this between our companies, to let young techies travel on a sort of an innovator passport. I’m curious as to how young entrepreneurs out there feel about this. Do you see it adding value to your efforts?

The Matatu as an Innovation in North America

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