An Interview With Appfrica Labs A roundtable interview with all the developers at Appfrica Labs! Features Jon Gosier (CEO/Director), Barbara Birungi (Administrative Assistant), Felix Kitaka (Developer), Jerry Opolot (PHP Developer), Ivan Kavuma (COO/Director of Operations), Emma Oluka (Developer) and Dennis Senyonjo (Mobile Apps Developer). Who are these developers from Uganda, who are their heroes, what are the challenges they face and what are their ambitions? What’s it like being a female software developer here? A young developer? A developer who’s gone away worked for a big software company and come back to help the next generation?

Fact Checking the Show

The BitTorrent client Emma brings up is Vuze formerly known as Azureus, created by Tyler Pitchford.

23andMe.com is the social network that uses your DNA sequence in your profile. It was created by Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey. Anne is the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

SymTorrent is a mobile bit torrent client for phones running Symbian.

Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg.com. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook.com. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google.com. All of them launched their apps while in (or in the process of dropping out of) college.

Mark Shuttleworth is the founder and CEO of the linux distribution Ubuntu.

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Appfricast 8 – An Interview With Appfrica Labs

April 30, 2009 |

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About the author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a TED Fellow.