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While catching up on some of my blog feeds the other day, I stumbled on a great post by Ethan Zuckerman about his recent trip to the iHub in Nairobi. Ethan did a wonderful job, in his often wordy manner, portraying the essence of the iHub from a bird’s eye view. I am very interested [...]
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 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 [...]
[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 [...]
[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 [...]
[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 [...]
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
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 [...]
[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 [...]
The following exciting events are coming up in April. If you have a relevant event in 2009 you would like to have added to my list, please let me know. Name: WhereCampAfricaWebsite: http://www.wherecampafrica.org/Location: Nairobi, KenyaDate: April 4th, 2009 Name: Next Web ConferenceWebsite: http://2009.thenextweb.com/Location: Amsterdam, The NetherlandsDate: April 15th-17th, 2009 Name: Africa GatheringWebsite: http://www.africagathering.org.uk/Location: London, EnglandDate: [...]
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