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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:
Tag Archives: Technology
Appfricast 7
Jon is Sick. Afriparty at SXSWi. Kongoni, a new African Linux distro. Zoopy and Vodacom, the plot thickens.
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Bit Torrent in Developing Countries
Where bandwidth is plentiful it’s become a curse to the media industry. The television studios hate it because people don’t need TiVo when the ...
The Best and Worst Project Management Apps
In “Global Web Apps Failing the World Market” I looked at a number of web tools that claimed to be universal but failed the market ...
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Young, Tech and Dangerous
Mike Stopforth recently published a follow up to a 2007 post entitled “Ten (More) Young South African Digital Citizens To Watch“. In it he spotlight’s ...
Gmail Goes Offline
If you’re working and living in the States, what to do when you have no internet connection is usually a bit of an afterthought. However ...
The Trouble With Google’s SA Ad Policy
Mandy De Waal writes about recent controversies with Google SA’s policies and apparent discrepancies in their reseller certification program…
Google South Africa set the cat among ...
Are Subatomic Cities in our Future?
James Tour and his students at Rice University have created vehicles only slightly bigger than strands of DNA…
The inventor of a car slightly wider than ...
DotSUB: Any Video, Any Language
dotSUB wants to crowdsource the translation of video, from any language, to any language.
dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the ...
This Week in Appfrica [Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2008]
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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