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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:
Tag Archives: Appfricast
Appfricast 18 – A Chat with Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web visits Kampala to discuss the history of the web as well as the future of the ...
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Appfricast 17 – Google Earth Gets Around
Rebecca Moore of Google talks Google Earth, Google Earth Outreach, Sketchup and Maps. Also a bit about TEDxKampala, the new Android Phone and AfricaGIS ...
FricaFactoid 2 – Cellphones Outnumber Lightbulbs in Uganda
In the second episode of The FricaFactoid, we do some math to figure out if the statement ‘there are more cellphones than lightbulbs in Uganda’ ...
Appfricast 15 – A Conversation With Meklit
Meklit Hadero is a singer, songwriter, thinker and activist who exudes passion for the arts and her native Ethiopia. She’s a member of the Red ...
Appfricast 14 – ExhausTED
After returning from TED Global 2009 Jon talks about what it’s like to present on the TED stage, what it’s like to be a fellow ...
Appfricast 9 – The Out-take Show
The Out-take Show. Following the session from last week I left my iPhone recording the conversation as we continued talking about what it’s like to ...
Appfricast 7
Jon is Sick. Afriparty at SXSWi. Kongoni, a new African Linux distro. Zoopy and Vodacom, the plot thickens.
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Appfricast 6
Culture Wars. This episodes talks about Vodacom, A24 Media’s growing number of partners, Offline Gmail, Disruptive Journalism and more.
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Appfricast 5
Bigger, better, uncut! It’s the first Appfricast of the new year. This episode discusses the phonetic Arabic search engine Yamli, the Legoland Inauguration, Photosynth, Souktel ...
Appfricast 19 – Curating and Verifying Realtime News