A Look at the Apps4Africa 2011 Winners
Appfrica is the organizer and facilitator of the second annual Apps4Africa competition which rewards African technologists for developing creative solutions to some of the continent’s most challenging issues. 2011 was the second year we’ve done Apps4Africa, the first year culminated with this congratulatory message from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Last year the … Read more
As We Enter our 4th Year…
In 2008, when I started about blogging about African technology, I had no idea where it would take me. I was just hoping to help draw attention to a number of inspiring stories and individuals I was learning about around the continent. Eventually, I was able to scrape up enough of my own meager funds … Read more
G|Uganda Recap
On September 1st Kampala saw the kick off of Google’s gUganda, which was held at the Munyonyo Speke Resort Commonwealth Conference Centre. 650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda. “Africa’s the final frontier.”- Google. Hearing this … Read more
AfriLabs: The Founders Fund for Africa
Today Appfrica and Hive Colab are happy to announce our participation in the cofounding of AfriLabs. On March 3rd 2010, founders from several established African tech incubators and open collaboration spaces @HiveColab @iHub @Appfrica Labs @NaiLab @Bantalabs @LimbeLabs came together for the iHub launch in Nairobi. The meeting hosted by Nailab (an iHub neighbor) made … Read more
On Lessons from Appfrica
One of the most rewarding aspects of running this company has been our International Fellows Program which invites developers from all over the world to Uganda to work alongside our staff as peers. The following post was written by one of our recent Fellows, Oliver Christopher Kaigwa Haas (we called him Ollie) who now works … Read more
About the Appfrica Labs Fellows Program
The Appfrica Labs office has an open door policy, encouraging people of all cultures, creeds and nationalities to work with us. It’s often the case that people who come to Kampala just need some space with an internet connection and a few friendly faces to help them get their work done. Over the past year, … Read more
Where Has Appfrica Been?
If you follow this blog relatively closely you’ve probably realized that that it’s been fairly quiet for just over a month. This was partly because of the holiday season and my being in the air or in airports, continent hoping (from Kampala to Amsterdam to Texas to Tucson to Atlanta to Denver to Washington D.C … Read more
Appfrica Labs: Almost a Year Old!
Appfrica Labs has been incredibly fortunate over the past ten months. We’ve operated on a shoestring budget, performing what I liked to call ‘alchemy’. That is, creating the applications and services people have come to know us by, without much in the term of internal resources. We’re scrappy and agile and I couldn’t be prouder … Read more
Web UI Designer Wanted
The tweets copied below retweeted by our friend @amysings should explain just who we’re looking to hire. This job is not location specific although we’d prefer someone on our side of the planet.
