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U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
By Jon on July 26, 2010
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
By Jon on July 26, 2010
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 …Category: Culture
Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
By Jon on July 22, 2010
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 …Category: Business
TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
By Jon on July 22, 2010
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 …Category: Culture

The TED Phone
By Jon on July 14, 2010
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 …Category: Mobile
Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
By Jon on July 1, 2010
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Category: Business
Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
By Jon on July 1, 2010
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 …Category: Business
A Fragmented Africa
By Jon on June 26, 2010
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:Category: Culture
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Re-Hacking Your World
Next week it’s my great pleasure to be participating in the Re-Hacking Your World conference taking place physically in Germany, but globally via pre-recorded interviews, ...
African Businesses Predict Growth in 2009
Africapractice published this press release that reveals high expectations for African businesses in 2009:
Business leaders are still bullish about Africa for 2009. africapractice asked business ...















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