African Tech News and Culture
Appfrica ranks 44 in Africa and 1 in Uganda. According to site visitors it ranks 452, and 211 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 94 and 32 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Last week representatives from the U.S. State Department Elana Berkowitz and Bruce Wharton reached out directly to innovators in East Africa to discuss the Apps 4 Africa contest, and the role software developers play in solving civil society issues in their countries. They are funding this contest which
TED Global 2010 wrapped up last week in Oxford, UK. As a TED Senior Fellow, I’m lucky in that I’ve now attended three TED events and I’ll also go to the next three. To be totally honest I’m hooked, so even after my Fellowship is over I’ll continue to fork
At TED Global in Oxford, UK this week TED and Nokia announced a partnership to bring TED talks to Africa and other developing parts of the world using the technologies that scale best, the mobile phone. Using the soon to be released Nokia N8, TED plans to ship phones pre-loaded with
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in partnership with Project Diaspora, UConnect, and Node Six are also announcing the Hive collaborative workspace in Uganda! Hive Colab is a collaborative, community owned, open
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 John Kipchumbah at SODNET (Social Development Network Kenya), and a number of very dedicated individuals from the United States Department of State have been working
When people think of Africa being fragmented, they usually think of things like politics, tribalism, and nepotism. They don’t tend to think about geology: Geologists working in Ethiopia have found that a 60-meter-long canyon is steadily expanding and will allow a new ocean to form — one which will bisect
The .xxx domain has been mired in controversy since it was first proposed. Some adult companies and spammers are against the idea as it would then become easier to filter out all adult content from the web. Meanwhile those against adult content entirely also don’t support it because
Computer makers are going to have to rethink they layout of keyboards being shipped to India and elsewhere. Why? The Union Cabinet is bestowing the Rupee an honor previously awarded to currencies presented by symbols like these £, €, ¥, and $. I vote for #4. via PSFK
Last month the Lighting Africa Conference and Trade Fair rewarded five innovative organizations providing solar power technologies to the African continent. Twenty-four entrants were rigorously tested and judged in five categories: room lighting, task lighting, portable torch lighting, best value and top performance. No award was made in the portable
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