Tag Archives: open source

Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi

Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and ...
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OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

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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Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Windows

People Online’s internship program successfully launched today. One thing I was completely unprepared for was having to do a basic primer on development environments. ...
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Asia-Africa on Open Source (AAOS)

This week marks the beginning of the Asia-Africa Open Source Conference in Jakarta… Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their ...
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Open Source Leading African IT Industry Explosion

Last week marked the beginning of I-week in Accra, Ghana which drew government officials, businesses owners, academia, developers and venture capitalists from all over the ...
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South African Student Wins Google Open Source Challenge

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded ...
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$50,000 for an OpenCMS Website?

I found an article Mulo’s site about the Bank of Uganda spending $50,000 ($84 Million Shs) on a website that was powered by OpenCMS. ...
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