Industry News
What is Hive Colab?
Hive Colab is the newest co-working space on the East Africa scene. But what is it and where did it come from? To …U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
Last week representatives from the U.S. State Department Elana Berkowitz and Bruce Wharton reached out directly to innovators in East Africa to discuss the Apps …Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda
Google is hosting two events in September to teach the use of Google technologies and products in Africa… Google is dedicated to making the Internet relevant …Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot …TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
TED Global 2010 wrapped up last week in Oxford, UK. As a TED Senior Fellow, I’m lucky in that I’ve now attended three TED events …
The TED Phone
At TED Global in Oxford, UK this week TED and Nokia announced a partnership to bring TED talks to Africa and other developing parts of …Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and …A Fragmented Africa
When people think of Africa being fragmented, they usually think of things like politics, tribalism, and nepotism. They don’t tend to think about geology: Geologists …
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Editorials
10 Social Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter
The following Twitter users are people that I know, have met at conferences or simply find interesting…all doing work in areas related to social ventures. Here’s what I think of them and why I think you should follow them too!
Who’s Blogging About African Tech?
These ten blogs focus on pretty much nothing else but African tech. Subscribe to all of these great blogs at once by downloading the OPML. To use the file, just upload it to your favorite feedreader (Bloglines, NetNewsWire, GoogleReader etc.)
PopAfricana and the African Hipster Movement
The Fader, Trace, Urb, Spin, NME…all these magazines are closely connected to the indie music, fashion and art scenes of the west. It’s only right that Africa would begin producing it’s own lifestyle mags to expose the subcultures of it’s various countries to the world.
News
Yahoo Gets a Bit More Social
Despite everything Jerry Yang has taken the blame for, as of late Yahoo has really been impressive from a developers perspective. It wasn’t too long ago that they opened up their search engine with an API called BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), more recently launched Browser Plus for developers interested in the cloud and the desktop and their other baby Fire Eagle is blazing it’s way into web apps everywhere. Now they’ve announced they’re opening up their homepage for developers to build applications.
AdGator Takes on AdSense in Africa
The South African social media aggregator Afrigator is taking on Google’s Adsense by offering a platform for Advertisers and bloggers interesting serving their local South African audience.
Shanta Devarajan on Africa’s Private Sector
Shanta Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the World Bank. He recently gave a lecture at the Colombia Business School on how to stimulate the private sector in Africa.
IT Skills Shortage in South Africa
The South African IT industry is on track to report reduced growth due to skills shortage in 2009. In other words, if you’re an IT professional, it may be a good time to consider moving to SA…
$28 quadrillion to 1 US Dollar, Zimbabwe’s Currency
Zimbabwe’s economy has all but collapsed, leaving it’s currency worth far less than the paper it’s printed on…
VCs Turning to BRICA in Slump?
In the current world-wide recession, are VCs and investors turning to emerging economies to diversify?
Links to Appfrica
Kabissa linked in with thoughts on 10 Social Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter.
Novel-A-Month linked in referencing “Who’s Blogging About African Tech?”.
Dispatch Foundation linked in from Zimbabwe about the currency collapsing.
And blogger Dale Zak wants you to learn more about Mara Triangle.