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Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid

Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid
Image via Wikipedia Niti Bhan is Founder at the Emerging Futures Lab. Niti integrates her multidisciplinary background in business, design and engineering with a global perspective to offer immediately actionable insights and strategic directions for successfully entering the challenging markets of...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB

Before You Develop The Next M-solution

Before You Develop The Next M-solution
Source Mobile is probably the greatest thing that ever happened to Africa, and more specifically, tech in East Africa. With 64.3 million subscribers in 2010 and growing (50 million in 2009), it’s only sensible that tech businesses would focus on developing mobile products. M Pesa’s success...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION

Battle of Social Networking and Online Communities in Africa

Battle of Social Networking and Online Communities in Africa
Last year whilst visiting an aunt in south west area of Tanzania called Kyela, near Lake Malawi- I put my samsung cheap android smartphone on the dinner table . My cousin immediately reached it pulled up the Facebook app and used my profile to friend request me! I remain hidden on Facebook and he wanted...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, STARTUPS

The Role of Government in Promoting Tech Innovation in Africa

The Role of Government in Promoting Tech Innovation in Africa
In talking about the efforts to promote technology and innovation in Africa, we tend to focus a lot of attention on private initiatives such as innovation hubs and the like. It is clear, however, that without a supportive, forward thinking government, it would be very difficult to move things forward. Ultimately...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, STARTUPS

Mending Africa’s Tech Skills Gap & Tapping into it’s Youthful Population to Power Innovation in Tech & the African Renaissance

Mending Africa’s Tech Skills Gap & Tapping into it’s Youthful Population to Power Innovation in Tech & the African Renaissance
In a rapidly changing technology world, it’s not only important that one understands how to do your current job/technology well but also be exposed to new ones, particularly in open source and cloud computing and mobile development technologies that may not have originated from the enterprise segment...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION

Doing something about bad design

Doing something about bad design
With a year+ of experience of running Afriapps, we’ve seen our fair share of badly designed apps – the number one reason we decline apps submitted to us. So now we’ve decided to do something about it. Introducing our latest ebooklet: Help! I’m a developer with no clue about design...Read Full Post
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Angaza Design plans to revolutionize energy access with Solite mobile money pay as you go

Angaza Design plans to revolutionize energy access with Solite mobile money pay as you go
Globally, over 1.5B people lack access to grid electricity for lighting and battery charging (600M in Africa). Lack of access to clean, reliable energy also makes it impossible to break the cycle of poverty. There is no denying that one of the biggest challenges for Africa is to solve this energy crisis....Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, INTERNET & WEB, STARTUPS

Which African country is best to do a tech startup? A Decision Framework

Which African country is best to do a tech startup? A Decision Framework
In recent conversation that have spanned the last 6 months, I’ve been getting the same style of questions from foreigners who recognize the growing opportunities in Africa and want to jump in. “Which is the best country in Africa to do a tech startup?” Sometimes the question is underlying...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION

Apps4Africa 2011 Winners: Innovative Apps Combating Climate Change

Apps4Africa 2011 Winners: Innovative Apps Combating Climate Change
Originally from the Appfrica blog Appfrica is the organizer and facilitator of the second annual Apps4Africa competition which rewards African technologists for developing creative solutions to some of the continent’s most challenging issues. 2011 was the second year we’ve done Apps4Africa,...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, INTERNET & WEB, STARTUPS

Learning Ruby on Rails, Fighting the Funding Trap and Other Interesting Things

Learning Ruby on Rails, Fighting the Funding Trap and Other Interesting Things
Riding the Rails One of my goals this year is to learn Ruby on Rails. When I first decided to get into web development (proper), about 7 years ago, my analysis lead me to PHP/MySQL. After coding two major sites literally from scratch (including the now defunct Jijini Markets), I decided it was time...Read Full Post
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