About

Contact us at: info at appfrica dot org

About Appfrica International

Appfrica Labs is an consultancy that provides opportunity for African software developers who are trained in data visualization, web design, mobile and other areas of software development. Appfrica was started in 2008 and remains profitable, growing, and innovative. Read our history!

We actively support the interests of investors, project managers, NGOs or grantors have when dealing with tech projects from across the content. We are the organizers of the 2011 and 2010 Apps4Africa competition which offers cash and rewards to African app developers who excel at solving difficult problems.

About Hive Colab

Hive Colab facilitates, mentors and incubates entrepreneurs in software in East Africa. It’s a collaborative workspace and open environment we funded and co-Founded in Kampala, Uganda.

About the Founder

You can find out more about the founder of Appfrica Jonathan Gosier and his work in other areas of software development here – http://about.me/jongos.

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14 Responses to “About”
  1. sims says:
    December 11, 2011 at 10:54 am

    where can i find the apps 4 africa offices in johannesburg ?
    includind apps africa international.

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    October 15, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    [...] Appfrica’s mission is two-fold: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs, and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the Internet in developing parts of Africa. (More about Appfrica) [...]

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    November 13, 2008 at 1:26 am

    [...] Thanks, Jonathan! [...]

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    February 9, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    [...] Jonathan Gosier of Appfrica.net, in his search for a simple, customizable self-hosted Project Management Intranet for his company, configured 15 popular applications and found cyn.in to be an invincible winner! [...]

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    March 16, 2009 at 9:12 am

    [...] Markets Grow.’ On that panel were Rose Shuman, Founder of Open Mind (Question Box) and Jon Gosier, Director of Appfrica and CTO of Open Mind. Rose indicated that they want to get a laptop to Uganda [...]

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  6. Tech lessons from Africa (Paul Canning) says:
    April 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    [...] Jonathan Gosier explains about his work in developing a tech hub in [...]

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    May 6, 2009 at 9:37 am

    [...] says it was a good program because, ‘It exposes us to different things. For example, I learned of AppAfrica at the Facebook Developers Garage organized on [...]

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    October 9, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    [...] the need for mobile phone messaging applications remains, according to Jon Gossier, founder of Appfrica. An article from The New York Times notes that rural farmers in Uganda use messaging services to [...]

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    [...] Uganda according to Google Africa blog. The translation was  facilitated by Jonathan Gosier of the Appfrica Labs team, Nabireeba James and James Olweny of Makerere [...]

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