About Appfrica

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About the Blog

Appfrica.net is the publishing arm of Appfrica International. It consists of many web properties, print media and video. The most well known of these is Appfrica.net a web portal for the latest news related to web development, social media, innovation, education and African entrepreneurship in other areas of technology. This also includes our weekly podcast, Appfricast which is available on iTunes.

About Appfrica Labs

Appfrica Labs facilitates, mentors and incubates entrepreneurs in software in East Africa and Uganda. It offers a physical space with a solid internet connection, servers, software and laptops which allow East African entrepreneurs a place to develop ideas in a constructive environment with industry professionals as mentors, outside of school. Entrepreneur projects are refined and prepped to help them secure funding and launch sustainable, profitable businesses. This project is loosely modeled after Paul Graham’s Y Combinator, providing small amounts of seed capital to startups. Appfrica Labs has also started an International Fellows Program which brings developers from all over the world to work alongside local Entrepreneurs as peers and mentors. That program can be learned about here.

We are a for-profit incubator and software development firm currently based out of Kampala, Uganda. The mission is to offer opportunities and work experience for East African software entrepreneurs so that they can then use their talents to bolster the growing local markets by offering products and services. Appfrica picks up where East African colleges leave off by offering hands-on experience in programming languages like Java, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, Django and Python, CouchDB, PHP, Perl, Kannel and that aren’t often taught in-depth locally at university. These skills are highly valued around the world and professionals in these areas helps to make East Africa a more attractive place to develop software, not only locally, but also for international companies. Appfrica Labs also provides oversight and guidance to the projects that are launched out of the incubator.