8-year Goldman Sachs veteran, Dambisa Moyo is currently hitting the US media circuit to promote her hotly-debated new book, “Dead Aid.” I am waiting to delve into this book as soon as it arrives to see…
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Peering into Africa’s Mobile Technology space, and where to invest
March 19, 2009 Events & Conferences Kenya Rwanda south africa Sudan technology UgandaThis past weekend, I had the honor of being invited to be on a panel discussion at South by Southwest (SXSW), “Appfrica: How Web Applications are Helping Emerging Markets Grow” The panel was moderated by one of…
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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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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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Alright we are plugged in here all nerdy-style at BarCamp Jozi. I count 23 individuals with a smattering of laptops, video projection equipment, bean bags and enough genius-level brain power to light a couple cities. 11:30…
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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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Google’s O3b Networks -vs- EASSy. Fight! Part 2
September 29, 2008 Kenya south africa Sudan tanzania technologyA WHOLE LOT OF FIBRE In Part One of this series, I posited that the fight for broadband dominance in East and Southern Africa was only between O3b Networks’ proposed launch of 16 LEOS and the…
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Google’s O3b Networks -vs- EASSy. Fight! Part 1
September 19, 2008 Kenya Rwanda Somalia south africa Sudan technology ZimbabweIf you’ve been keeping pace in the Afri-tech space lately, you have probably heard about two of the biggest projects battling for the Broadband Title by being the first to bring ubiquitous broadband access to…
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