Afrigadget – Gigantic Electronics extension cable

“Safety First!”, you may think while watching the following video, but if the cheap (Chinese) polyethylene (?) extension cables just break too often due to rough handling and their low quality, chances are that someone will come up with an alternative. Like this young man in Kenya: (no subtitles available on this one, sorry) A [...]

Afrinnovator – Mending Africa’s Tech Skills Gap & Tapping into it’s Youthful Population to Power Innovation in Tech & the African Renaissance

In a rapidly changing technology world, it’s not only important that one understands how to do your current job/technology well but also be exposed to new ones, particularly in open source and cloud computing and mobile development technologies that may not have originated from the enterprise segment or the 10 year old technology used by [...]

White African – The iHub in 2012: Freelancers and Presentations

This weekend the iHub Advisory Board met with the managers (Tosh and Jessica) to discuss the future direction of the space and what our focus should be for the coming year. The meeting was facilitated by my friend Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studios, who is in town as a part of the PopTech Lab. The [...]

African Digital Art – Zarafa

Zarafa, released in France on Feb 8th, is an animated feature film from filmaker Remi Bexancon and animator Jean-Christophe Lie. Lie is most known from award winning features such as Triplets of Belleville, Disney’s Tarzan, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Kirikou and the Wild Beasts and Nocturna. “Under a baobab tree, an old man [...]

Moses Kemibaro – MasterCard Opens East African Regional Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya

Press Release. Global payments and technology company announces official presence across the region MasterCard Worldwide, a global payments and technology company, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number of MasterCard offices across the African continent to five, with other offices operational in Cairo, Casablanca, Lagos, Johannesburg [...]

Ushahidi – Somalia Speaks: Lessons From Novel Journalism

[This blog post was officially co-authored with Al-jazeera] The first 72 hours of the SomaliaSpeaks deployment were particularly intense. The purpose of this joint write-up with Al Jazeera and partners is to share some of our early lessons learned in this novel collaboration.  Every deployment teaches us a multitude of lessons, so our partners at [...]

Afromusing – On Innovation

There are many tomes, missives and observations on Innovation, that it demands freedom, that it is evenly distributed and should be fostered organizationally and even on a country level   Allow me to add one. To be innovative, you need … Continue reading →

Mtoto Wa Jirani – Rebel with a cause?

A little background… In 2010 I participated in a workshop organized by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore dubbed “My Bubble. My Space, My Voice”. This was part of a series of workshops in three different regions … Continue reading →