Afrinnovator Year 2010 in Review Part 2 – July to December

One more day to the close of 2010 and the decade and today we continue on our journey through the year that’s just passed. Yesterday we took a look at key happenings as we covered them here on Afrinnovator. Today … Read More

Afrinnovator Year 2010 in Review Part 1 – January to June

It’s two days to the close of 2010 and the beginning of a new year (and new decade). It is also the first anniversary of Afrinnovator.com. A lot has transpired in the one year that Afrinnovator.com has been in existence, … Read More

Google's New Policy Manager for Africa: Ushahidi Founder Ory Okolloh

Ory Okolloh (@kenyanpundit) is an outstanding activist and technology figure as one of the co-founders of the ever popular Ushahidi platform. Ushahidi is a crisis information crowdsourcing web application that was started out by a handful of African techies and bloggers … Read More

Kenya e-Gov Conference 2011

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 … Read More

5 Leading Perspectives on Nokia’s Open Innovation Africa Summit

Nokia’s Open Innovation Africa Summit brought together some of the world’s best regarded thinkers, academics, creatives and businesspeople in Naivasha in Kenya to share critical, creative and relevant thinking to build and sustain innovation for the bottom of the … Read More

Weekly Africa Blog Round Up #1

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 … Read More

Africa Gathering 2010, Nairobi

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 … Read More

Kenya's Robust Growth Driven by Telecoms Boom

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 … Read More

Futures of Technology in Africa

We recently announced a new section of Afrinnovator.com for Book Reviews.

For our first review, we’ll be looking at a book that was put together following a research on the ‘Futures of Technology in Africa’ done by Jasper Grosskurth a futurist … Read More

Intel Corporation to focus more on Kenya and other emerging economies

More and more big tech corporations are increasing their focus on Africa and increasing their investment in the continent. And this is for good reasons as it would appear, major studies such as those undertaken by McKinsey’s MGI show really … Read More