Industry News
What is Hive Colab?
Hive Colab is the newest co-working space on the East Africa scene. But what is it and where did it come from? To …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: Geologists …
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This Week in Appfrica [Sept 28 - Oct 4 2008]
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News
Appfrica at SXSWi and Barcamp Africa
Appfrica heads back to the U.S. for two of the most buzzworthy technology events of the year! For me, participation in these conferences represent a real shift in thinking about Africa.
A Look at Ugandan Web Startup NodeSix
NodeSix was started two years ago by Benge Solomon King of Uganda. It’s now a thriving web hosting business and one of the biggest success stories of the industry in the region.
Interview With Citizen Journalism Startup Demotix
Turi Munthe is the founder of Demotix, a group that crowdsources reporting to resell that content to big media groups.
Fight the Future With Superstruct
Superstruct is an ARG (alternate reality game) that asks you to help combat growing socio-eco crises in the world.
Quicknews
Mark Shuttleworth: IT Community Hero of the Year
Chromium: Chrome for OSX and Linux
Google’s 2001 Search Odyssey: The Web As It Was
Visa Develops for Google Android
Editorials
‘Global’ Web Services Failing the World Market
This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. and Europe, in most cases not for the lack of trying.
From the Archives
The Next 2 Billion: SinoAfrica Rising
A few months ago I wrote this extensive overview of China’s growing involvement on the continent.
Links to Appfrica
ReadWriteWeb’s “Social Media in Africa” Part 1 looks at the growing African influence on the web and the innovations moving the continent forward.
WhiteAfrican goes in depth covering my new web app Afridex.
StartupAfrica and TimbuktuChronicles both mention Afridex.