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White African
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a white african's view of the world. focusing on technology, africa and how technology can help africans.
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Recent Posts
African Mobile Market, Q2 2009 Numbers
Africa has 415,010,625 mobile phone subscribers, with an average growth rate across the continent of 5.4% between Q1 and Q2 2009. Blycroft does an excellent job of aggregating data on African mobile phone markets each quarter. They’ve compiled...
Quick Hits Around African Tech
South African Startup Index The Business Report is running a South African Startup Index using YouNoodle’s API. Quite cool, I’d love to see someone do this for startups across Africa. The Malawian Who Harnessed the Airwaves Really, it...
African Connectivity Visualized
Jon Gossier’s Appfrica Labs has put together an amazing infographic on internet connectivity in Africa. Amazing work! “The African continent is rapidly changing. In the next two years 2 billion dollars will bring 12 terabits of connecti...
Creative Juices
What gets you thinking creatively? I’ve been thinking a lot about the need to have more time spent away from the normal timesinks that define our working lives. Getting more dead time. Daydreaming time. Doodling time. My main ways: 1. Day...
Tags, Time and Location
On Friday I had a long conversation with Noam Cohen from the New York Times about Ushahidi and Twitter. He was doing some homework for an article he was writing on the increased value that geolocation data can add to the massive streams of data comi...
An African Tech List on Twitter
A lot of people are on Twitter these days. So many, it seems that you can be overwhelmed by the number of people and it’s hard to find the right people to follow. To help with that, I’ve created a my own Twitter list that follows Africa...
