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Kayak Founder to Blanket Africa with Free Wifi

Paul English recently announced an ambitious start-up called JoinAfrica who’s mission is to do to lack of access what Bill Gates is trying to do ...
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Call for Volunteer Developers for Haiti Efforts

If you are a software developer with experience with PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python or MySQL, Ushahidi could really use your support with our effort ...
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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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Buying Water with M-PESA in Kenya

The community of Musigini, Kenya, is pursuing a novel solution to corruption and disputes over water allocation. With Grundfos Lifelink and Safaricom, they’re building M-PESA ...
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Ghana to Obama

A few million of Obama’s closest friends are blowing up his mobile… Mr Obama will answer a number of texts - which will be selected by ...
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Vote for VC4Africa at Ideablob

VC4Africa.com, the community Appfrica recently partnered with to offer web based investment solutions to diasporans and other investors interested in supporting African entrepreneurs has entered ...
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Quick Hits from Around Africa

Naijaborn.com launches as a web community for Nigerian diasporans. Globa.com uses Ipina as the platform for m-commerce solutions and accepting credit cards payments via mobile, web ...
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K’Naan Tweeting Up Lyrics for Next Single

It was only a matter of time, but Somali-Candan singer K’Naan is pioneering by using the social networking site Twitter to crowd-source lyrics for his ...
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Google South Africa To Open Theme Park

Rumors that Google SA will be opening a massive 200 acre theme park in Cape Town, South Africa have proven to be 98.7% true. The ...
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Things Still Fall Apart

“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever,” says one of the characters in Chinua Achebe’s classic book THINGS FALL APART. It’s been half ...
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