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African Diaspora Marketplace: A USAID program I can get behind

About a month ago, it was announced that the United States Agency for International Development was teaming up with Western Union and a host of other partners to provide funding in the range of $50-100k and technical assistance to members of the African diaspora based in the U.S., desiring to build businesses in their home [...]

Kiva Pledge Update: Featured Project

[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.]
In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am supporting [...]

African Summer Event Wrap-up

This is a great summer for exciting tech events happening throughout Africa. Be sure to check out some of the latest events coming up and spread the word:

International Development and Design Summit (IDDS)-Ghana
Mediatech Africa ‘09, South Africa
Barcamp Abidjan-Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Maker Faire Africa (MFA)-Ghana
AFRICON-Nairobi, Kenya

Kelele 2009: The African Bloggers’ Conference-Kenya

[ October 29, 2009 6:00 am to November 1, 2009 6:00 am. ] Kelele is an annual African bloggers’ conference held in a different African city each year and run by an organising committee in that city. Kelele will be held for the first time October 29th – November 1st 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya.

The theme of Kelele ’09 Nairobi is Beat Your Drum

Website: http://www.kelele.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelele-Conference-2009-African-Bloggers-Conference/108252622119
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kelele/

Maker Faire Africa (MFA)-Ghana

[ August 14, 2009 to August 16, 2009. ] Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana’s capital, Accra. – This event is free to the general public.

More information: http://makerfaireafrica.com/

Lastest finds in the blogoshpere

On June 15th, I was musing over the (growing) problem of information overload. I’ve since siphoned my Google Reader collection of RSS feeds down to 335. Not too bad, but I still have a ways to go to bring it to a manageable amount.
Here are some good finds I have in my Google Reader you [...]

Kiva Pledge Update: Featured Project

[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.]
In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am supporting [...]

Speaking of Bashir’s indictment by the ICC…

I’ve read multiple write-ups on the indictment of Sudanese President Omar Bashir and have been asked just as many times on my thoughts on the whole ordeal. Some are asking because I have an interest in human rights in general and others are asking because I started studying human rights law with the University of [...]

Back from Peru with a shot of insight…

I’m back from Peru and into the groove of life once again here in Washington DC. The trip was great, as expected, but more than that, it was an adventure outside my comfort zone. It was a shot in the arm and it gave me a hunger for more travel to South America & Central [...]

Barcamp Abidjan-Abidjan, Ivory Coast

[ July 24, 2009; ] Who: Anyone who is interested in technology, Internet, mobile, micro-finance, and which can enable Côte d’Ivoire to reduce its technology gap.
For more info: http://www.barcampabidjan.com/

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