Mobile Technology in East Africa

In this presentation I take a look at some statistics about mobile technology in Eastern Africa, looking at specific countries in the region.

Overall, the observations are quite consistent:

• Feature phones still rule
• Mobile penetration is increasing steadily in … Read More

Why You Must Never Forget About the Humble Feature Phone in Africa

Jonathan Hoehler is Chief Technical Officer and Business Analyst at Starfish Mobile International based out of Johannesburg, South Africa. With over 8 years in the mobile telecoms space in Africa, he’s been an evangelist frequently seen on the conference circuit … Read More

9 Cool Smartphone Apps Built in Africa

1. Nigeria Blackberry Constitution App

A blackberry application for the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Created by @zubairabubakar

2. Nigeria: TrueBranches Blackberry app

The TrueBranches mobile app is an extension of their website. … Read More

6 neat African websites/blogs on mobile

Here’s a list of 6 nice online resources for mobile and mobile related news and information in Africa or by African bloggers that we love reading:

1. Mobility Nigeria: Nigeria’s foremost blog on mobile and mobile related matters. An independent … Read More

Startup Watch: Tuvitu – customized, aggregated content on your mobile

Tuvitu is a mobile platform developed by Shimba Technologies, a Kenyan startup that aims to create a simple way for people to aggregate and organize content and apps on their mobile devices.

Shimba Technologies provides channel development, information dissemination and … Read More

Samsung opens Electronics Engineering Academy in Africa

As we wrote earlier on, Africa is beckoning and the world is responding. Today we got news of Samsung opening an electronics engineering academy in South Africa. Some statistics had it that as at mid last year Samsung’s market share … 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

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

Mobile Web West Africa 2011

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 … Read More

#OpenAfrica #InnovateAfrica Unconference to take place at Nairobi's iHub

Last week we covered Nokia’s Open Innovation Africa Summit event happening in Kenya next week. We encouraged you to submit ideas, vote and participate and you did.

As a buildup to the event, the iHub will be hosting the #OpenAfrica … Read More