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Are you a programmer? The Kasumi Project needs your help

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 [...]

Ecological innovation coming from Factor e Farm = Concepts applicable to Africa

I recently discovered the website of Factor e Farm, which started out as a 30-acre soybean field in rural Missouri and is now a bubbling source of ecological innovation. What makes Factor e Farm so unique is that they are completely self-sustaining in every regard, from energy production to drinking water. This project is truly [...]

Yes, Africa is a continent of immense knowledge and ingenuity

As a huge fan of Eric Hersman, aka @whiteafrican, I found this video to be very inspiring. It reinforced my belief that Africa is full of knowledge and ingenuity far beyond what it gets credit for. The event of Maker Faire Africa helps to showcase this knowledge and ingenuity and is guaranteed to grow next [...]

Link Roundup: Farm Radio to Eric Reeves

Farm Radio International Launches 3rd Radio Scriptwriting Competition
Google Steps Up Its Darfur Genocide Coverage In Google Earth (via TechCrunch)
When Society Expects Us to Fail, We Usually Do (from Nathaniel Whittemore via Change.org Social Entrepreneurship blog)
Ten reasons why Chinese are despised in Africa (via African Politics Portal)
Navigating Africa With OpenStreetMap (via 27 months blog)
US Sudan Envoy [...]

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

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 [...]

5 Inspiring Blogs I Follow on a Daily Basis

People love lists, don’t they? Grocery lists. To-do lists. Blog lists. I decided to write up a list of some blogs I’m so thankful they exist I can’t help but show my appreciation for them by passing them to you my readers. So here they are along with my own personal commentary:

Change.org’s Social Entrepreneurship–Led by [...]

7 Noteworthy Links

I decided to increase 5 Noteworthy Links to 7 Noteworthy Links. I have such a large plethora of links to share that I feel the need to get them out in the open to people who might benefit from them. As always, if you have something to add to next weeks list, please send them [...]

5 Noteworthy Links

ethicL-Buy and sell things that help humanity–I haven’t bought anything from ethicL yet, but it looks interesting.
Hollywood in Juba-Big screen arrives in South Sudan after years of war (from BBC News)
Anthony Brewitt: “Basecamp Changed My Design Process” (from 37Signals)–I use Basecamp for all of my .BIZ web projects and swear by it.
Baseball brings Africans together [...]

Debut of “5 Noteworthy Links”

I subscribe to a massive amount of RSS feeds in my Google Reader to keep me up-to-date with the Internet’s pulse. As many people can’t live without their morning coffee, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my daily dose of Google Reader. While it would take me eons to visit all of [...]