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Category Archives: Featured
Great African Singularities
The singularity is defined by futurist Ray Kurzweil as being the point at which technological advancement exceeds human capacity to control and fully understand it. ...
On Love and Hate for 160 characters
Is the growing skepticism on SMS warranted? One of the most rewarding aspects of running this company has been our International Fellows Program which invites ...
Alternative Models for OLPC?
At his Africa 3.0 panel at this year’s South By South West Project Diaspora’s Teddy Ruge critiqued the role the One Laptop Per Child Project ...
The Open Source Embargo
Or “Separate but Equal hits the Open Source Community”.
I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites ...
Best of Appfrica 2009
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, for individuals and companies alike. For Appfrica it’s no exception as we profile the ...
TEDx Week
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
Also posted in Interviews Tagged bandwidth, brandwidth, emerging economies, entrepreneurship, fibre, investment, language, localization, m-money, ted, tedx, video Leave a comment
Infostate of Africa
People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards ...
Also posted in Infographics, Technology Tagged africa, data, data visualization, infographic, statistics 29 Comments
Coded in Country | Stoking Local Innovation
Can institutions [be they international organizations, companies, universities, foundations or governments] enable innovation in local technology industries? We explored this question on a rainy ...
Asynchronous Info, Disjointed Data and Crisis Reporting
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 ...
Mobile Gutenberg, Banking Papacy