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Forecasting Africa’s Mobile Future

Forecasting Africa’s Mobile Future
Co-founder of Ushahidi, Erik Hersman, gave an interesting talk at the recently held AITEC Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya in which he made some observations, predictions and opportunities regarding the current state and future of mobile in Africa especially looking at where the opportunities are...Read Full Post
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Mobile Health in Africa: The Entrepreneur’s Guide- Part 1

Mobile Health in Africa: The Entrepreneur’s Guide- Part 1
This is a three part series on Mobile Health. Look for two more posts from my colleagues, Karen Chen a mhealth researcher and Amy Lehman MBA/MD of the Floating Tanganyika Health Clinic Photo credit Joel Selanikio, www.datadyne.org   The mobile technology infrastructure in Africa sets a powerful...Read Full Post
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The Africa Tech Parks & Cities Arms Race- Is it worth it?

The Africa Tech Parks & Cities Arms Race- Is it worth it?
One of the most debated topics in IT innovation industrial policy is the place of tech parks and cities catalysed by African Government’s role in helping lay down important infrastructure. Kenya’s Konza Tech city is slated to cost $7B. Tanzania’s Rhapta’s city is meant to cost...Read Full Post
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Taking a look at hardware innovation in Africa (Part 2) – of hardware & hubs

Taking a look at hardware innovation in Africa (Part 2) – of hardware & hubs
In the first part of this look at hardware innovation in Africa we mused about the feasibility of building up an environment in which hardware innovation and development can grow and scale up in Africa. Founder of the African Institution of Technology and Fasmicro,  a company that focuses on embedded...Read Full Post
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Genomics Research in Africa – Improving Health by applying cloud computing

Genomics Research in Africa – Improving Health by applying cloud computing
I talked about the need for more market research. Lets get more serious. How about more genomics reasearch? Sounds too cutting edge? No. Its become more and more feasible to do, cheaper and more distributed. The intersection of bioinformatics, genomics sequencing with cloud computation may unleash huge...Read Full Post
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What counts? Need for more Data Transparency & Africa Tech Market Research

What counts? Need for more Data Transparency & Africa Tech Market Research
A few months ago, I did some due diligence on a potential innovative healthcare venture in East Africa. As part of this I sourced some data from a no. of sources including the IMF, world bank etc. However, getting more granular data like current prices of medicines and what firms were manufacturing and...Read Full Post
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Innovation funding in Africa: Are VCs & Impact investors taking enough risks?

Innovation funding in Africa: Are VCs & Impact investors taking enough risks?
There are an increasing number of new Venture Capital firms (VCs) present on the continent in the last few years such as Fanisi Capital that operate in East Africa and the recent Adlevo that focuses on South Africa and West Africa. Then there are a new crop of investors known as impact investors which...Read Full Post
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Taking a look at hardware innovation in Africa (Part 1)

Taking a look at hardware innovation in Africa (Part 1)
Last year we posed the question: Is there a market for homegrown hardware solutions? At Afrinnovator, we tend to focus a lot on the software side of innovation, perhaps because there’s a lot of it happening. And that’s no surprise really since getting into software has much lower initial...Read Full Post
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3 Memes on Africa’s Tech Future from Internet Father, Vint Cerf

3 Memes on Africa’s Tech Future from Internet Father, Vint Cerf
This week Kenya has been hosting the Internet Governance Forum  under the main theme, ”Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation“. Well, yesterday Nairobi’s Innovation Hub hosted one of the “Fathers of the Internet”, Vinton  G....Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, INTERNET & WEB, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS

The snowball effect in the Kenyan (and African) startup scene

The snowball effect in the Kenyan (and African) startup scene
The premise behind the move to found and launch Afrinnovator was not really just for the sake of blogging (though writing is fun). Part of the reason was that it seemed that there were either not enough success stories or the stories were there but they were hidden. The theory went as follows: to see...Read Full Post
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