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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 …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: Culture
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: Business
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: Culture

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: Mobile
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: Business
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: Business
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:Category: Culture
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Jonathan Marks Interview
It was my great pleasure to participate in this interview with Jonathan Marks last week in Austin, Texas.
Ugandan IT Successes – Jonathan Gosier from Jonathan ...
Appfrica Labs Joins KUV Capital
After two months of planning, I’m pleased to officially announce that Appfrica Labs, the Y-Combinator inspired incubation arm of this company, has been funded! Kuv ...















Appfricast 9 – The Out-take Show