From the monthly archives: March 2010
This post has been needed for quite some time, but now I’m finally getting around to writing it. I started writing thinking that I would have a few tips here and there to offer, but now I’m finding out that it’s becoming this colossal blog post of epic proportions full of life lessons I’ve learned [...]
This is an excellent blog post that I couldn’t help but write about. In “From Netsourcing to Crowdsourcing to Turksourcing Crisis Information” @patrickmeier uses the example of Ushahidi and asks the proverbial question, “How do we move from netsourcing to crowdsourcing and on to turksourcing?” In his post, Patrick Meier talks about how Ushahidi was [...]
If there’s one thing that gets my blood curdling, it is Internet censorship. Reporters Without Borders just released their annual report on Internet freedom & censorship entitled, “Enemies of the Internet”. Among the violators: Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. Also important to note: Among the [...]
The Kamusi Project has been an online living and breathing Swahili dictionary for some time now. I have used it numerous times myself. The project is a collaboration of two organizations, the Kamusi Project International (KPI) and Kamusi Project USA (KPUSA), “dedicated to the creation of dictionary and learning resources for African languages.” Lately, the [...]
In case you haven’t heard, tech is growing across the continent of Africa. And, no, not just the typical innovation hubs of South Africa and Nigeria. Tech is spreading all over the place to varying degrees, the latest being the new iHub in Nairobi that opens this week. Computerworld starts the conversation: “Availability of affordable [...]
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