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Twitter-MTN Partnership & Innovation in Cameroon
Twitter and MTN Cameroon have announced a partnership that enables MTN subscribers in Cameroon to send and receive tweets from their mobile phones using SMS. Users access the service by texting “START”...
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Africa re:load 2012 – Highlights & Growing the AfriLabs Network
I recently returned from Africa re:load 2012, an annual two-day conference hosted by the Bauhaus University Weimar and GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) and wanted to share some...
View ArticleSouth African MC Sifiso Sudan selling mixtapes via Blackberry
From Africanhiphop.com: Sudan recently released his new mixtape ‘Rage against the machine’ directly through his Blackberry, cutting out any labels or middle men. He made a deal with airtime merchants...
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Djoss.tv Takes Top Prize at the 2012 Cameroon Startup Challenge
The 2012 Cameroon Startup Challenge was the first competition of its kind to recognize the achievements of technology entrepreneurs in the country. The awards ceremony, held on September 20th at the...
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A Visit to the Future Home of icecairo
ice (short for innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship) is a growing network of physical workplaces where people can come together to share what they can do to solve problems themselves, in a...
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It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik (or) How I NSA-Proofed my Email
Revelations about the NSA’s mass internet surveillance has spurred interest in existing privacy tools and driven developers to build of a slew of new tools and services aimed at providing end-to-end...
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Twitter-MTN Partnership & Innovation in Cameroon
Twitter and MTN Cameroon have announced a partnership that enables MTN subscribers in Cameroon to send and receive tweets from their mobile phones using SMS. Users access the service by texting “START”...
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Mapping Africa’s Bush Fires
From NASA’s Earth Observatory website: Season after season, year after year, people set fire to African landscapes to create and maintain farmland and grazing areas. People use fire to keep less...
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Why Open Collaboration Spaces like the *iHub_ Matter
Last week I attended the much anticipated iHub Nairobi launch, as well as participated in a pre-launch gathering of African tech hub pioneers (more on the latter in a follow-up post). A number of...
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Beyond PCs: Thin Client Computing with Ndiyo
During a recent visit to OpenTech ’09 in London, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser who together with self-described übergeek Dr. Michael Dales form the engineering might behind...
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Africa re:load 2012 – Highlights & Growing the AfriLabs Network
I recently returned from Africa re:load 2012, an annual two-day conference hosted by the Bauhaus University Weimar and GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) and wanted to share some...
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