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A Vision of the Present
Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a …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 …
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“It’s Called the Last Link…”
The Red Herring recently published this article by Alex Gronke about connecting Africa. This paragraph in particular caught my attention…
It’s called the last link. The ...
The Best and Worst Project Management Apps
In “Global Web Apps Failing the World Market” I looked at a number of web tools that claimed to be universal but failed the market ...
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Great African LAN Party
Some friends of mine in the Kampala, Uganda area have toyed with the idea of having a massively local, massively multi-player Video Game LAN party ...
Appfricast 6
Culture Wars. This episodes talks about Vodacom, A24 Media’s growing number of partners, Offline Gmail, Disruptive Journalism and more.
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Obunaffu Bwa Yintanenti
Abaatandikawo omukutu gwa ARPANET baalaba omukutu gwa yintanenti nga engeri y’okugaziyaamu empuliziganya wakati wa ebyuuma bi kali magezi. Wabula era tumanyi nti yintanenti nga bwetugyimanyi ...
The Internet’s Achilees Heel
The internet was envisioned by the creators of ARPANET to be a decentralized computing network for communication between terminals. Of course the internet as we ...
How Datanet Serves Premium Internet to East Africa
When I arrived at FangFang Hotel in East Africa I was immediately surprised at how fast their internet was. I got to Uganda expecting ...
Om Malik Misses the Point on OLPC