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
Hello Appfri.ca
ShortUrls are all the rage right now with bit.ly offering it’s Pro service, goog.gl from Google and t.co from Twitter. They’re also fairly easy to setup and configure. I used yourls.org which took all of five minutes to setup and install. Today we’re launching our own vanity url, Appfri.ca. Vanity urls, short urls or branded … Read more
Mobile Gutenberg, Banking Papacy
“The mobile phone is like the printing press, so who’s the Church?” – Emrys Schoemaker This afternoon I had the pleasure of having lunch with Emrys Schoemaker who used the above metaphor to compare the mobile phone revolution in developing countries with that of the printing revolution in 15th century Europe spurred by the Gutenberg … Read more
The White House on Africa's Tech Sector
Last week the White House blog acknowledged a number of individuals who are using technology to nurture local innovation in Africa. Some of the groups mentioned were Hive Colab and Appfrica in Uganda, Ushahidi and the iHub in Kenya, Limbe Labs in Cameroon, and Sodnet, Kenya’s Civil Society Organization.
Grassroots Diplomacy
Recently we announced a contest that we’re co-facilitating with SODnet and the iHub in Kenya called Apps 4 Africa. This has been exciting in that it directly supports and rewards the innovative thinkers across the continent that are all too often left-out of the global discussion about how to help their own countries.
Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot of that growth as North America and Europe reach the saturation point. What does The growth at Facebook look like? O’Rielly has some great insight…. Image via O’Reilly
