The Verge covers Philip Bloom’s short film on Johannesburg’s most iconic residential tower. Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower was built in 1975 as a monument to luxury. The enclosed space at the center of the cylindrical apartment block was to…
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Teaming with Samasource Puts Africa’s Rising Digiratti to work
September 18, 2009 Diaspora at work Kenya UgandaThis morning I had an opportunity to be featured on The Hugh Macken Live radio show. Actually should I say, Leila Charayath Janar—who I interviewed last year at the Facebook Developer’s Garage in Uganda, was the…
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Diaspora at Work: Juliana Rotich lends her Global Voice to Ushahidi
December 30, 2008 Diaspora at work Kenya south africa technologyJiliana added, "we came together. Ory, David, and I were in Kenya at various times [during the crisis]. In the early days it was the three of us who were in Kenya...the programming and the setup…
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Meraj Chhaya editor-in-chief of Phone Report has set up a share library of all things MobileActive08 in Johannesburg, on Ovi. For the Diaspora, if you were unable to attend and are interested in catching up…
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Mobile Active 08 concludes an event-filled 3 days
October 17, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyMobileActive08 pulled off the impossible by convincing over 350 mobile technology enthusiasts, funders, and developers to descend of Wanderers Club in Johannesburg, South Africa for a three-day feast on all thing mobile and development. MobileActive08 kicked…
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BarCamp Jozi 2008 Round up
October 16, 2008 Diaspora at work Events & Conferences south africa technologyBarCamp Jozi wrapped up last weekend. I finally got myself some free time and decent wifi, even though I am nestled in the basement of a Mugg & Bean Cafe in Johannesburg’s Rosebank district. Which…
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BarCamp Jozi: Teleconferencing from the edge
October 12, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyThe first day of BarCamp Jozi was supposed to culminate with a live link up with BarCamp Africa. The simple exercise of attempting to find adequate bandwidth for even a one way stream highlighted the anemic availability of…
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Project Diaspora at Barcamp, MobileActive08
October 10, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyGood news, PD is jetting off into the sunset in effort to cover the latest, biggest, baddest confabs about and/or in Africa. Yours truly just landed in Johannesburg, just in time to catch Barcamp Johanessburg this…
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Conference: MobileActive08 Kicks off 13-15 October in Jo’burg, South Africa
September 8, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyIs it me or is “Jo’burg” starting to feel like the Silicon Valley of Africa. Just earlier today I was letting you guys know about Tech4Africa, and now here comes another conference with even bigger heavy…
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