Josh Goldstein Becomes First Appfrica Fellow
Josh Goldstien, blogger, activist, former Googler and Tufts University alumni has joined Appfrica Labs as our very first fellow! When I announced the Appfrica Fellows program earlier this year, I thought it would take some time to convince someone to participate. After all, who wants to come to Uganda to work as a software developer? … Read more
News at Appfrica Labs June 1
April and May were extremely busy months for us. Ivan Kavuma, a former developer at Microsoft, has joined the staff as our Project Manager and Director of Operations. We’re excited to have such a proflic talent on board. If you’ve been following the blog, you’ll know that we launched several applications in the past two … Read more
Your Friendly Neighborhood TED Fellow
I’m happy to formally announce my participation in the TED Fellows program this coming July in Oxford, UK. I’ve been a huge fan of TED ever since I saw talks by people like Andrew Mwenda, Jonathan Harris, Jill Bolte Taylor and Jacqueline Novograts. Those people in-particular but also many others that I’ve seen along the … Read more
News At Appfrica Labs April 1
It’s been a big two months for the company with a lot of rapid development and many new hires. By the end of the month we currently have seven more people than we started the previous month with, effectively doubling our staff, if only temporarily. Three operators under contract for the Question Box pilot, two … Read more
Appfrica Labs is Hiring
APPFRICA LABS is a company based in Uganda providing unique opportunities to software entrepreneurs in East Africa. We are a Venture Capital Partner, Incubator and Collaborative workspace modeled after Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator. It’s our ultimate goal to work with talented programmers who are interested in one day launching their own start-ups. Working for APPFRICA LABS … Read more
This Blog in Luganda
I met Miquel from Maneno at Barcamp Africa a few months ago. He told me about his start-up blog platform and their efforts to support localization. I was a fan then as I am now. Essentially Maneno operates by crowd-sourcing the translation of blog posts into various languages like Swahili. I too recognize the importance … Read more
Appfrica RSS in French and Chinese
So Appfrica’s been translated into German, Italian, Chinese, French and Spanish for some time now using some automated translation services. A while back I added RSS feeds with header and descriptions in French and Chinese. You can now automatically subscribe to the alternate language feeds of this blog. Partly to continue my venture into China’s … Read more
Following the FricaFacts
So this week Appfrica is rolling out a new mash-up project called FricaFact. This one is all about educating the masses about Africa using social media tools…specifically Twitter. The app is pretty simple. Right now it displays a different fact each day about the continent, it’s countries, it’s people, it’s culture. Want to participate? Just … Read more
Appfrica Showcased on WordPress.com
Head on over to our showcase on WordPress.com’s site to vote for this site. Voting doesn’t get us anything but it would be nice to have an African blog at the top of their designer’s showcase for a change!
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