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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:
Archives par tag : Development
The Future of Funding
The plight of many groups, both for profit and non, is funding. How is money acquired, who is it acquired from and what do they ...
The Future of Giving
Does the future of field research lie in augmented reality?
Publié dans Development, Featured, Mobile Autres mots-clefs : aid, donor, Mobile, news 3 commentaires
The Future of Philanthropy
Recently, Jasper Grosskurth of STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends asked me, “What’s the Future of Africa?”. We wasn’t asking about the the day ...
Publié dans Culture, Development Autres mots-clefs : aid, future, philanthropy Laisser un commentaire
MCC Launches Monitoring and Evaluation Portal
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) just launched a new part of their website that allows readers to browse their performance by country and sector. While ...
Appfricast 9 – The Out-take Show
The Out-take Show. Following the session from last week I left my iPhone recording the conversation as we continued talking about what it’s like to ...
Publié dans Appfricast Autres mots-clefs : Appfrica Labs, Appfricast, programming Laisser un commentaire
Hashtag #Afridev
A few friends and I have begun a discussion on the microblogging site, Twitter. Using the hashtag #afridev, we’re raising points and discussing all things ...
Fastcompany Interviews Dambisa Moyo
Fresh off of her appearance on Colbert Report, DEAD AID author Dambisa Moyo was interviewed by Fastcompany’s Jeff Chu. Here’s some highlights…
FastCompany: Do you have ...
SXSWi 2009 Recap
If you came to SXSW for this year’s Sarah Lacey moment, you were probably disappointed. Although there were some rather awkward moments, and a little ...
Publié dans Featured, Industry News Autres mots-clefs : 2009, afrigator, interweb, sxsw Laisser un commentaire
“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 ...
Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Windows