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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:
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This Week in Appfrica [Feb 15 - 21, 2009]
“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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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, ...
Avoiding Mass Extinction at AMEE.com
For a recent project, I was exploring how to create a carbon calculator when I came across AMEE.com. AMEE has one of the coolest app ...
Mobile Activism, Mobile Disruption
Christian Kreutz explores the growing trend of mobile devices as a disruptor in developing countries…
The simplest and most powerful form of mobile activism in the ...
Smart Phones, Transparency and Developmental Aid