Ethan Zuckerman’s thoughts on Global Voices turning 10: Global Voices started as a project that rounded up blog posts from around the world, when possible organizing them into themed stories illustrating an aspect of the social…
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Remit.ug featured in Masters thesis on mobile entrepreneurship by Guy Shmuel
September 12, 2014 Projects technologyGuy Samuel interviewed yours truly about our little remittances startup a few months back for his Masters thesis in International Relations at Institut Barcelona. Remit.ug is exemplary of the benefit that can be created when mobile…
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O3b Is Now Bringing Its High Speed Satellite Internet To Emerging Markets
September 5, 2014 technologyMost satellite internet and data services are from satellites in geosynchronous orbit – a little over 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. That distance increases the time it takes for data signals to travel. O3b’s satellites,…
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Dan Evans visited Hive Colab last year while I was in Uganda: Based on the maturity and business viability of many of the small tech firms that we have met with over our data collection visits,…
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Remit.ug is headed to Switzerland after winning Seedstars World Kampala
June 27, 2014 news Projects technologyPost by remit.ug. Congrats to our pitching team Stone Atwine and Collins Mugume who represented Redcore Ltd. Switzerland, here we come!…
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Google reportedly launching 180 satellites for global internet service | The Verge
June 2, 2014 technologyGoogle’s reported plans to roll out a fleet of satellites likely won’t make its efforts with drones or balloons obsolete. Tim Farrar, a consultant who worked for a company that tried to offer satellite-based internet access…
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Why Venture Capital hasn’t taken off in Africa
February 25, 2014 Economy International Development Projects technologyI got this question in my email and thought the answer would make for a good post: I’m curious though, why hasn’t VC taken as strong of a hold in Africa? The last two decades it’s…
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Shane Cole reports for Apple Insider: The Parliament of Kenya is set to join a growing trend toward paperless governance with the purchase of some 450 iPads to be used by representatives and staff in the…
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Interesting tidbit from The Verge, covering Jacob Applebaum’s latest NSA revelations in Der Spiegel: The brochure in question dates from 2007, suggesting capabilities may have advanced even further since then — but Appelbaum left little doubt…
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Untitled from druga stefania on Vimeo. Afrimakers is an initiative that wants to enable African makers to use digital fabrication for solving local challenges like access to clean water, energy, information. The idea is to plant…
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