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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:
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On Love and Hate for 160 characters
Is the growing skepticism on SMS warranted? One of the most rewarding aspects of running this company has been our International Fellows Program which invites ...
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 ...
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 ...
Veröffentlicht in Interviews Getagged bandwidth, brandwidth, emerging economies, entrepreneurship, fibre, investment, language, localization, m-money, ted, tedx, video Kommentieren
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 ...
Veröffentlicht in Infographics, Technology Getagged africa, data, data visualization, infographic, statistics 27 Kommentare
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 ...
Veröffentlicht in Business Getagged 419, africa, e-commerce, oh the unfairness of it all, payment processor, paypal 13 Kommentare
Great African Singularities