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What is Hive Colab?
By Jon on juillet 30, 2010
Hive Colab is the newest co-working space on the East Africa scene. But what is it and where did it come from? To …Category: Politics
U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
By Jon on juillet 26, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda
By Jon on juillet 26, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
By Jon on juillet 22, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
By Jon on juillet 22, 2010
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 …Category: Politics

The TED Phone
By Jon on juillet 14, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
By Jon on juillet 1, 2010
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Category: Politics
Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
By Jon on juillet 1, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
A Fragmented Africa
By Jon on juin 26, 2010
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 …Category: Politics
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Rwandese Envoy Given Conditional Release
The battle between France and Rwanda in relation to the 1994 genocide has taken a new twist. Rose Kabuye, the Rwanda’s chief of State Protocol was given a conditional release at her first appearance before the Palais de Justice in Paris.
Kabuye who was released after more than ten hours of waiting for a judge’s decision after being extradited from Germany, is along with eight top Rwandese officials accused of having shot down the plane of former president, Juvenal Habyarimana in April 1994. More from The New Times