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Africa: The 2nd Safest Continent to Surf the Web
Here’s an interesting study by AVG on internet security, asking “Where in the World are you most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus?”. Apparently, and surprisingly to me, the...
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Russell Southwood at the iHub
I consider Russell Southwood to be the most well-connected person in the African tech scene, he also happens to have one of the best macro view of what’s going on across the continent in the...
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Quick Hits Around African Tech
Africa’s mobile industry needs to re-invent itself to meet tomorrow’s challenges Another great zinger from Russell Southwood’s Balancing Act on the state of the mobile industry across Africa and...
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Kenya’s Groupon Clones: Rupu and Zetu
Groupon has been a massive success in the US, it’s a deal-of-the-day site, with projected revenue of $500m in just it’s second year. It uses the framework of “collective buying”, which means that if...
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Pay Attention to the Mobile Web
In 2008 we saw the scales begin to tip with imports of data enabled phones being larger than that of non-data enabled phones. In 2009 we saw the undersea cables hit East and Southern Africa in a big...
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IxDA and Designers as Explorers
I get culture shock every once in a while, and it’s not the normal type where you’re coming to a new country and everything is completely different than your own country. This is more subtle, I’m at a...
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Mobile Web Content in East Africa [Report]
Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this paper is best summarized below. “The...
View ArticleThe Future… is Here! [Pivot 25 Video]
PIVOT25: East Africa’s Biggest Mobile Tech Event from Pivot25 Conference on Vimeo. The next big thing in African Tech has arrived. Pivot 25 is here! The region’s top 25 mobile tech startups pitch...
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Broadening the Base of the Startup Pyramid
While in London at the RGS event I spoke about a different way that I’ve been trying to explain the startup and successful ecosystem needed in places like Africa. Specifically, in the major technology...
View ArticleThe “Mobile Web” as text and voice
The mobile web revolution has already spread around the world. The phase of it that we live in is where we see the internet hitting critical mass based on the availability of web connectivity on mobile...
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