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This is really beautiful. WildlifeDirect.org has been given a nice make over. The new site looks awesome Read Full Post

Kelele, the African bloggers conference which is an initiative of several African bloggers coming together to push blogging in Africa and to create a community of African bloggers was to take place in 2009. Unfortunately due to lack of sponsorships the conference had to be postponed to hopefully some time mid 2010. If you would like to sponsor the event you can contact the organizers here and on Facebook. Read Full Post

It’s been barely a two months since Ushahidi co-founder Erik Hersman (aka whiteafrican) relocated back to Nairobi, Kenya from the US and the effects are already evident. Today, Erik announced publicly the opening of a new tech hub in Nairobi. According to Erik It’s an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area. This space is a tech community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers and designers. It is part open...Read Full Post

I got this interview from last year where Moses Kemibaro and Rebecca Wanjiku, two of Kenya’s more prolific bloggers sat down for an interview on one of the national broadcasters, KTN. I find it interesting that KTN has been taking some note to what is happening with “social” in Kenya. In a separate interview, they had Mark Kaigwa and Kahenya talking about social media. I’ll be hunting down that video as well KTN Bloggers Roundtable meeting with Larry Madowo, Moses Kemibaro...Read Full Post

The Ushahidi team continues to do a brilliant job on the Haiti crisis. Tracking what’s going on the ground. Here are a couple of updates: Of course, the Haiti Ushahidi instance You can keep up with the activities in the Ushahidi Haiti Situation Room (at Fletcher). Haiti Twitter Tracker – courtesy of Swift River, a side project of Ushahidi (will write more on this soon) I also heard that CNN featured a demo on Ushahidi and what they are doing earlier today. Kudos to the team. Read Full Post

As I have probably mentioned before, I believe that the startup scene in Africa is just taking shape. For example, in my country, Kenya, I believe that 10 – 20 years from now, we will be talking about some of the current influencers in the industry as the Bill Gates’ and Steve Jobs’ of our continent and our generation. Since these are the formative stages, we can look out of our context and learn from other established tech clusters around the world. As usual, none stands out as...Read Full Post

Someone once said that good things happen over time, but truly great things happen all at once (I think it was from some movie). Anyway, the point is that sometimes, in the mind of an innovator or creator of any kind – an artist, sculptor, poet, software engineer or whatever other creative work you can think of – a spark goes off, something inexplicable, a magic moment of sorts, a period of such amazing insight. In fact more often than not it is not totally clear to the creator what it...Read Full Post

They say the only constant thing is change. One of the greatest challenges facing academia today is probably that with the rapid changes in technology it is becoming harder and harder to keep up with everything. Learning tools have changed, students are more empowered than before, they have more sources of information other than just books. Plato's Academy I came across this awesome slideshare on Universities and Social Networking View more documents from Chris Sparshott. This makes me worry...Read Full Post

We highlighted how WildlifeDirect is using blogging and other social tools to further their wildlife conservation goals. We managed to get Victor Ngeny (@ngeny) the Blogger Training Officer at WildlifeDirect to answer some questions about their experience: Afrinnovator.com: Some background on WD. When/how it started, who was involved at the inception… WildlifeDirect was founded in 2004, by Dr. Richard Leakey as a non-profit conservation organization based in Kenya along the lines of an internet...Read Full Post

Mobile is growing ever so consistently in Africa and it has attracted several high profile events to the continent. Last year, in Johannesburg, South Africa the Mobile Web Africa conference was held. The event was a huge success. This year, the conference comes to East Africa. Specifically, Kenya, on the 3rd and 4th of February. Mobile Web East Africa is the next in a series of progressive and innovative events to focus on one of the most important technological advances of the 21st century. By...Read Full Post