By Jon on 七月 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 …
Category: Culture, Education
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 七月 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
By Jon on 六月 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
Adgator Takes on Adsense in Africa