Category Archives: Technology

Conspicuous Correlation: Coltan and Crisis Reports

December 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Mashing up some data from Ushahidi and a number of reports on the mining of coltan (columbite and tantalite) it’s easy to see the correlation ...
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More on afTLDs

December 4, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Following some great feedback, I thought I’d expand on my last post on ccTLDs. First, however it came across, the post wasn’t intended to be ...
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The Untold Story of African ccTLDs

December 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In my Infostate of Africa graphic I tried to bring attention to one of the geekier problems facing Africa: the issue of country-code Top Level ...
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Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist

December 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
For blogger and citizen journalist Solomon King, the 2009 Kampala riots began with his tweet “Okay, we’re running for our lives.” Here he talks about ...
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Infostate of Africa

November 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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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Typekit For Arabophones: Arabic Fonts When You Want Them

November 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Angolphone (and speakers of languages with similar alphabets) have many tools available to work with type on the web. As design becomes more sophistocated, designers ...
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More Fiber Optic in West Africa

November 4, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A few months ago, Phase3 Telecoms launched a plan to connect Ghana to Nigeria via Togo and Benin. This week, Phase3 finally signed an agreement ...
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OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

November 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Kiberia, Nairobi’s million-person slum, will be mapped in November through a project initiated by OpenStreetMap and Jump Start International. OpenStreetMap’s Humanitarian team will collaborate with ...
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Real Problems, Virtual Solutions

November 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A few months back I wrote an article responding to people who were comparing the economy of SecondLife to that of developing countries like Burundi, ...
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Nigeria Launches New Anti-419 Initiative

October 23, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Last week, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched Operation “Eagle Claw,” to bust syndicates of 419 scammers. The anti-corruption police report 800 scam ...
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