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Where Has Appfrica Been?

January 20, 2010 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
If you follow this blog relatively closely you’ve probably realized that that it’s been fairly quiet for just over a month. This was partly because ...
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Appfricast 16 – Ujima and the Future of Journalism

September 19, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Reporter Ron Nixon of the New York Times recently sat down with me to discuss the future of journalism and his own project, Ujima. Download or ...
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Asynchronous Info, Disjointed Data and Crisis Reporting

September 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The recent riots in Kampala have revealed a couple of things about the flow of news and how people behave in crisis situations. We still ...
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Hyperlocal Journalism and South Africa

September 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Hyper-local journalism takes the age-old idea of local news and magnifies it. Think of sites like GlobalVoices, the -Ist community and Huffington Post, drilled down ...
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The Future of Giving

August 12, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Does the future of field research lie in augmented reality?
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Introducing The All New, All Different Appfrica.net

August 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Happy Birthday, us! Just over a year ago I started Appfrica.net as a little research blog that was going to help me get accustomed to ...
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Josh Goldstein Becomes First Appfrica Fellow

July 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Josh Goldstien, blogger, activist, former Googler and Tufts University alumni has joined Appfrica Labs as our very first fellow! When I announced the Appfrica Fellows ...
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This Week in Appfrica [Jun 1 - 7, 2009]

June 7, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“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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Why Kelele Can’t Fail

March 27, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I was probably overly excited by the news of a pan-African and International tech conference taking place in Africa when it was announced at Barcamp ...
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The Trouble With Google’s SA Ad Policy

December 30, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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 ...
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