Category Archives: Featured

Mobile Gutenberg, Banking Papacy

“The mobile phone is like the printing press, so who’s the Church?” - Emrys Schoemaker This afternoon I had the pleasure of having lunch with Emrys ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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