May 2011

Monday May 23, 2011

Kenya’s Konza Technology City

Posted by Hash | Tags: Africa, Cities, Government and Kenya

Kenya’s plan for a 5,000-acre “Silicon Savannah” some 30 miles from Nairobi.

Friday May 13, 2011

Facebook Misstep? Yeah?

Posted by Hash | Tags: Corporations and User Revolts

So Facebook hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google. What you gonna do about it? Get over it, already… although it isn’t right, obviously… MG Siegler on the latest Facebook “slimeball stunt”:

Like it or not, Facebook is too integrated into the fabric of the web now for everyone to just walk away. As has been proven time and time again, people will get really angry with them for some misstep, and then totally forget about it a week later.

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Tuesday May 3, 2011

Africa’s Mobile Future(s)

Posted by Hash | Tag: Africa

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Sunday May 1, 2011

African Tech Joins Up

Posted by Hash | Tags: Africa, Conferences, Kenya and Startups

By developing its developers, Africa’s tech sector hopes to go from ping to kerching.

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Photo Credit: Sundhult

Time was when African software developers didn’t register on Silicon Valley’s radar. No undersea fibre optic cables meant that there wasn’t much of a digital infrastructure in most of sub-Saharan Africa and so accessing and developing its software market was tough work.

These days, with access getting easier, the African blip on the Silicon Valley screen is starting to ping somewhat louder: the world’s biggest technology companies can’t get enough of the right kind of African ideas.

Seeking solutions to African needs, the kind not generally grokked by Silicon Valley VCs, companies like Google and Nokia are working hard to encourage African developers.

They go into schools and universities. They set up apps markets. They help with marketing. They sponsor conferences. But the most obvious way, the one which gets the most attention, is via the kerching and bling of the apps challenge.

Going app?

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