Stephane Boyera on the Evolution of the Mobile Web
Stephane Boyera of the World Wide Web Foundation discusses the next 20 years of the internet and how the mobile web is poised to dramatically enable billions of people. Recorded on November 23, 2009 at TEDxKampala.
Population of the Dead
How many people have ever lived? While doing research about populations for my last piece, I began to wonder just how many people had ever walked the face of the earth. The articles I found [here and here] were intriguing so I decided to visualize them as well. Link to the high-res.
Bill Gates on the Dead Aid Meme
Bill Gates responds to the idea that ‘aid is bad’ in this interview with Newsweek. Although, he doesn’t reference Dambisa Moyo or or her book DEAD AID directly, some of his comments do make arguments against the meme (of aid doing more harm than good) while defending the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation approach to … Read more
Recap of AfricaGIS: A Geospatial Technology Conference
On Monday, October 26, 2009, 27 members of Google’s staff and around 200 people from around the world and Africa (I’ve heard conflicting reports of higher numbers) descended upon the capital city of Uganda for a technology conference dedicated to the topic of geospatial data and information systems. The week-long event (still going at the … Read more
Should the White House Contribute to the Open Source Community?
The White House is going open source. Over the weekend, the White House announced that whitehouse.gov now runs on Drupal. Until now, the Obama administration has continued to use tools purchased during the previous administration. These tools severely limited what the administration could do with the website, limiting opportunities for interaction with users.
Google Earth Workshops Coming to Kampala and Nairobi
Wondering which Google Geo tool to use? Google Earth or Google Maps? What about Google Map Maker and Google SketchUp? Well, this is your opportunity to learn everything from the experts. The Google Earth Outreach team has organized workshops that are scheduled for October 30th at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala Uganda and another on … Read more
110m New Potential Twitterers in India
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, has partnered with Twitter, allowing Airtel subscribers to Tweet without having to pay for an international SMS. Incoming updates are free. Mashable reports:
Social Network Spreads Creative Commons Content in Arab World
Jeeran, one the largest arabic-language social-networks, announced the launch of a Creative Commons channel. The new channel will start out with content from Al Jazerra Creative Commons, but will allow Jeeran users to add their own CC licensed content as well. The channel will include information on what CC licensing means, how to licensed work, … Read more
East African Writers Unite to Free Journalist
More fallout from the recent riots in Kampala, Uganda. The Kenyan writers association Kwani has released an open letter on behalf of Kalundi Serumaga who was imprisoned during the Kampala riots last week: The unlawful arrest of Ugandan writer, broadcaster and filmmaker, Mr. Kalundi Serumaga by irregular security operatives on Friday September 11, 2009 is … Read more
