Tag Archives: kampala

G|Uganda Recap

Google's G|Uganda Conference held at Kampala's Speke Resort Munyonyo. On September 1st Kampala saw the kick off of Google’s gUganda, which was held at ...
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Solomon King on Becoming an Accidental Journalist

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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Week in Review: Kampala Riots, Asynchronous Info, Paypal Alternatives

Appfrica’s weekly review looks back at popular stories from our own blog and others from the week gone-by. This week: Kampala rocked by rioting, the ...
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Update: Kampala Riots Continue

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Kampala Riots, Citizens Tweet

Yesterday around 2pm riots broke out in specific regions of Uganda’s capital city Kampala. If you lived anywhere else in the world, you probably dind’t ...
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Answerbird Flies High

In the first of a series of profiles on my staff’s projects and works in progress, today I’m featuring Felix ‘Kayt’ Kitaka and his Facebook ...
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Facebook Comes to Kampala

So a few months ago when I began organizing the Kampala Facebook Garage I was initially a little daunted. I was worried bout getting ...
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‘Clearly Africa is like a New World Again’

Alan Patricof of the Huffington Post writes about his time spent in Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Abuja, Nigeria following the election of Barrack Obama ...
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Campala (Barcamp Kampala) Day 2 Recap

Day 2 went just as planned. Code was shared, tips were given and presentations filled the day as the first ever Barcamp in Uganda came ...
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On the Ground

To all the various contacts I’ve made over the past few weeks I just want to mention that I flew into Kampala late last night ...
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