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Samsung is doing interesting things in Kenya with regards to mobile applications development and their recently launched mobile application platform, Bada. Robert Ngeru, from Samsung is really driving local applications development on their platform. Samsung are running a mobile applications development competition and have also started up a growing community of developers around their platform. On the ihub blog is a fairly detailed article on the stage 1 winning applications from the competition....Read Full Post

Kenyan startup, Whive, is announcing a platform based on Twitter that allows users to send free SMS. We got this from them: whive twitter Whive is pleased to announce the launch of a Twitter Application. This is a follow up tour Facebook Application which has been in use for 3 months. We would like to make it easier for Twitter users to Send SMS to East Africa while still utilizing basic twitter services like Reply, Favourites, ReTweet and Direct Messaging. In particular this application allows...Read Full Post

Looking forward into 2011, there are already some interesting events planned for different areas of the continent. Of course, Lagos, Nigeria is all set to host the biggest mobile web conference in Africa – Mobile Web West Africa. In many African states governance is a major issue, and Kenya is set to hold an e-Governance conference in March, 2011. The theme of this conference is, ‘Delivering Services through e-Government’. It shall include paper sessions, panels, demonstrations and poster...Read Full Post

It’s holiday season and while most would be slowing down to the holiday mood we at Afrinnovator are all geared up for the new year! Today we begin what will be a weekly excercise rounding up some notable blogs in west, east and south Africa as well as whatever else we could have found interesting with regards to Africa. Well, let’s get down to the ‘Weekly Africa Blog Round Up #1′ West Africa mPowerment Seminars – Coming to your location near you - Mobility Nigeria In 2011,...Read Full Post

Pagatech, a Nigerian company founded back in 2009 has been granted a license by the Central Bank of Nigeria to roll out a mobile money service much like MPESA. The service is called ‘Paga‘ Pagatech was founded in early 2009 with a vision to enable a cashless society and bank the unbanked in Africa. Our first product offering, Paga, is a direct to consumer mobile payments service. Paga is an innovative, open, secure, and interoperable mobile payments platform that allows any person who...Read Full Post

No one knows African problems like an African. We think that the lives of many ordinary Africans can be improved using the benefits of technology, using African solutions to African problems – sometimes with a helping hand from others. We aim to bring those with problems and those with the ability to solve them together. So reads the Africa Gathering manifesto, an initiative co-founded by Mariéme Jamme and Edward Scotcher that we have previously written about here on Afrinnovator.com. The last...Read Full Post

The article was originally featured on Inveneo’s ICTWorks blog. BuzzCity, a mobile media company, is charting the impact of the mobile data price war between Safaricom and Bharti Airtel. Buzz City serves mobile ads, and in the 3rd Quarter of 2010, it served 506 million ad impressions to Kenyans, a 116% increase from the 2nd Quarter – the second quarter in a row of double-digit increases. You can read the full report here. The Afrinnovator has a great synopsis of what this means: This...Read Full Post

According to the World Bank’s Kenya Economic Update, Kenya is at a ‘tipping point’ poised for a possible boom in economic growth. The report says that this is largely due to a telecommunications revolution over the past decade. The World Bank is projecting growth of upwards of 4.9% in 2010 and upwards of 5.3% – 6% in 2011, if all goes well. The report also attributes this positive outlook to growth in the ICT sector, the country becoming a hub for ICT innovation and especially...Read Full Post

Originally posted on Web Trends Nigeria: It’s December, the last month of the year 2010. Let’s check out how the industry feared last month as we always do, you know? The top four spots are maintained by October’s sites as nigerianbestforum.com enters the top five sites first time ever. Nairaland.com remains unshakable on the top spot followed by punchng.com, vanguardngr.com, sunnewsonline.com and nigerianbestforum.com. With this, 60% of the top five sites still news site showing a continuous...Read Full Post

Probably the biggest mobile web conference in Africa goes to West Africa next year. This follows it’s debut in East Africa earlier this year. You will probably remember our live coverage of the Mobile Web East Africa (Day 1 and Day 2) conference back in February, 2010. Mobile Web West Africa is taking place at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos on Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd February 2011. All the signs are there that it is going to be another standout conference following on from its...Read Full Post