…to Redistribute the Future
Last week at Tech4Africa in Johannesburg I gave a short talk. It was meant to be much longer but I got confused on how much time I had, so apologies to the T4A people. Anyways, the topic of the presentation was “The 5 Most Disruptive Innovations I’ve Seen” and it discusses industries and concepts which … Read more
Tech4Africa Is This Month!
I’m really excited to be one of the keynote speakers at Tech4Africa this year in South Africa. I’ll be there discussing Apps4Africa among other things. If you’re interested in going but are intimidated by the price of admission, here are a few different options for tickets… Tech4Africa runs from 27-28 October 2011 at The Forum … Read more
Zero to Sixty: Setting Up an African Venture
The other day I responded to a student who was seeking advice on relocating to start a venture in East Africa. I thought I’d share the email here since it’s likely relevant to others. The first thing I’d recommend when starting a new business out of the country is to try to find a local … Read more
AfriLabs Update
Last March (almost a year ago) I mentioned that a group of the various Labs in East Africa were forming a loose association of networked hubs that would serve two purposes: to pool resources, knowledge and lessons learned for entrepreneurs and to ultimately build a rotating fund that will be invested in East African tech … Read more
Appfrica in 2011
This blog has been uncharacteristically quiet over the past few months. Not without reason, I’ve been all over the world running SwiftRiver for Ushahidi, getting married, relocating to Washington, D.C., and with projects like Hive Colab and Apps4Africa. 2010 was a really good year for everything but it didn’t come without it’s challenges and hurdles. … Read more
Ushahidi Founder is Google's New Policy Manager for Africa
The success of Ushahidi as both an activist organization and as a technology startup is one that is widely recognized as Africa’s first big ‘garage’ startup success story. The organization was born out of the 2007 post-election unrest in Kenya when a Ory put out a call to map citizen reports of violence. Erik Hersman, … Read more
Innovation in a black tie
..As one of the most exciting and significant bi-monthly networking sessions for people in IT and Telecoms, The Innovation Dinner Series brings together decision makers and top-flight speakers to discuss burning issues in the ICT Industry.- ITNews Africa
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
FrogMob Crowdsources Market Research
Frog Design, the global innovation and design firm is experimenting with a ‘method of guerilla research’ that let’s anyone submit photos related to specific campaigns. The idea is to cast a lens on the ‘long tail’ of product use and consumption around the world to inform new design and marketing decisions… An experimental method of … Read more
