Tag Archives: africa

About the Appfrica Labs Fellows Program

January 31, 2010 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Appfrica Labs office has an open door policy, encouraging people of all cultures, creeds and nationalities to work with us. It’s often the case ...
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Periodic Table of World Internet Facts

December 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twenty-Five percent (about 1.73 billion) of the world’s population is currently online, largely in developed world countries. Challenges for bringing the other four billion online ...
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The Untold Story of African ccTLDs

December 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In my Infostate of Africa graphic I tried to bring attention to one of the geekier problems facing Africa: the issue of country-code Top Level ...
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Paul Bagyenda: Geography is History

November 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Ugandan computer scientist Paul Bagyenda discusses how the internet has changed Uganda over the past decade and why ‘geography is history’. Recorded November 23 ...
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Infostate of Africa

November 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards ...
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Real Problems, Virtual Solutions

November 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A few months back I wrote an article responding to people who were comparing the economy of SecondLife to that of developing countries like Burundi, ...
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Bill Gates on the Dead Aid Meme

November 1, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Bill Gates responds to the idea that ‘aid is bad’ in this interview with Newsweek. Although, he doesn’t reference Dambisa Moyo or or her book ...
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Appfricast 17 – Google Earth Gets Around

October 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Rebecca Moore of Google talks Google Earth, Google Earth Outreach, Sketchup and Maps. Also a bit about TEDxKampala, the new Android Phone and AfricaGIS ...
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South Africans Give up on ADSL, Turn To Carrier Pigeons

September 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I would have sworn this was The Onion… IPoAC was first “implemented” (meaning: they actually did it) by the Bergen Linux user group; they’ve sent nine ...
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PayPal Alternatives for African Entrepreneurs

September 9, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s rant about PayPal’s lack of availability in sub-Saharan Africa. Although PayPal is ubiquitous in the States and Europe, there are many ...
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