MobileActive08 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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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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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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Conference: Tech4Africa ’08 kicks-off Oct. 3-4 in Jo’burg
September 8, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyIt’s a little known secret around here at PD that I am a tech nerd, or should I appropriately say that I love following all things tech. I especially love following any manner of tech centered…
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