Apple, Inc. today released its Report on Government Information Requests. A quick scan shows most of the countries that requested user data were Western, with USA requesting more than just a truckload of personal data. Missing from the…
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Grand Challenges Canada | Rising Stars Application Microsite.…
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The Verge’s almost perfect coverage of Lotikipi foiled by poverty porn
September 11, 2013 International Development technologyI have become a fan of the neo-tech journalism as practiced by tech blog, The Verge. It is a tech first outfit that does serious journalism on stories outside the technology just outside the sphere. Take…
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Jason Sadler HeadsetsDotCom is disappointed Apple doesn’t knock his socks off anymore: Unfortunately, this has been the state of Apple for the past few years. Yes, the iPad was a great new product, and reaches an entirely different…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s internet.org: Making the internet available to every person on earth is a goal too large and too important for any one company, group, or government to solve alone. Internet.org’s partners have come together to…
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I am really proud of this piece in Wired UK magazine about Uganda’s emerging tech scene, not because yours truly and the techies at Hive Colab are featured, but because some of the people that I…
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Edward Paice is director at Africa Research Institute, interviews Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer business in the Horn of Africa: We also provide a service for the people who might not use…
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This Little Sticker Works Like an Anti-Mosquito Force Field | Wired Design
August 6, 2013 Health technologyThis is where science and crowd-sourcing get together effectively to solve a global problem. Somehow I wasn’t surprised that field testing is going to be done in Uganda at the end of the year. Pricing this…
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I have been checking out this food delivery app this morning and I am intrigued by its potential and what it says about Africa’s digital solutions for the continent’s emerging digital economies. I exchanged emails with…
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In 2012, over 750,000 Ugandans sent home $1 billion
July 31, 2013 International Development technology Uganda758,294 Ugandan emigrants sent home $948 million in remittances in 2012. That’s fast approaching the $1.6 billion Uganda received in development aid in 2011. The really interesting nugget about Ugandan immigrants (at least according to this…
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