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The good folks at Africa Gathering have posted videos from last December's Africa Gathering that was held in Nairobi, Kenya. You can check out the individual posts. But we've also embedded them below for your convenience (don't you just love embedding!)
Erik Hersman attended and wrote a nice piece on his blog, whiteafrican.com

Kris Senanu - Access [...]

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We happened to stumble upon a series of videos in YouTube about the making of Barcamp Babi.
Barcamp Babi was held on the first weekend of March. There's an 'interesting' take on part of the discussion concerning African websites and monetizing web content in Africa on subsaharska.com

From the official barcammbabi site:
Le Barcamp Abidjan 2010, c'est 3 jours de rencontres, d'échanges, de découvertes, de débats, d'innovation, de lobbying et de transactions.
Au Barcamp, tout [...]

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We recently featured Maneno the content platform with an African twist. It appears Maneno is currently running a competition dubbed "Maneno Open Theme Contest".
A new feature on Maneno allows a designer to heavily customize a Maneno blog using a 'Template Development Kit'. This is a very powerful system and it opens up the site to [...]

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If you know something about last years Calling All Innovators competition ran by Nokia, then you have probably heard of Afridoctor. That's the application built for S60 phones that won the day.
The app has had over 10,000 downloads (or more by now) on the Nokia Ovi Store and was developed by 20fourlabs and Blueworld Communities.

“Afridoctor [...]

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The ICANN CEO Rob Beckstrom opens the 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. He makes a call to Africa to arise and take advantage of the Internet:

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Vodacom and RLabs are running a competition on the use of mobile technology in improving local communities. The idea behind the competition is the growth and acceptance of mobile in Africa. The challenge is to come up with innovative ways to leverage not only voice and text but also the growing mobile internet space. There [...]

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Content made in Africa! In the fairly recent past we have covered Afrigator and myScoop, both of which are African (blog) content aggregators.
This time, we take a look at Maneno, a content (blog) platform built with African content in mind. Maneno is actually a swahili word meaning "words". We asked the people behind Maneno one [...]

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An interesting event as far as ICT is concerned in Africa is taking place in Kampala, Uganda The African Digital Summit seeks to explore theme of the conference is “Digital convergence and innovation driving positive change.”
According to The Observer:
More than 200 foreign delegates are expected to converge in Kampala tomorrow for the start of the [...]

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One of the biggest problems startup founders in Africa face is that of finding suitable funding for their startups. This is especially so in the very early stages of the startup. This is true of (perhaps) all regions in the up and coming tech/innovation hubs in Africa. It's definitely true of Kenya (from experience). Erik [...]

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Here's the weekly round up of startup events coming up in the Cape Town area courtesy of the CT Startup Digest. Subscribe to the digest for a weekly email summary of upcoming events in the area:
Innovation Festival
When: Monday, March 8th and Tuesday, March 9th
Where: Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
More Info: http://www.innovationfestival.co.za/

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