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Johannesburg, 26 July 2010 – The most hyped-up technology conference to come to South Africa, Tech4Africa is but days away. A number of the QuirkStars are gearing up for this unprecedented opportunity for networking and sharing with some of the best minds in digital. Quirk’s first appearance at Tech4Africa will be in the two days [...]

Google is finally going to hold events for students, developers and entrepreneurs in Kenya and Uganda. gKenya and GUganda are set for September: Google is very excited to meet with software developers, entrepreneurs and CS students in Kenya. We will be demonstrating Google’s suite of products that are driving innovation in technology, business across the [...]

On 20 July, legendary mountain man Dan Neville will leave his beloved Cape Town for dusty Johannesburg to present Idea Bounty before the delegates at the Innovation Conference, 2010, held at the prestigious Hilton Hotel in Sandton on 21- 22 July. We interview Dan before his fated trip. The global economic crisis forced a burning [...]

iHub will be screening this year’s TEDGlobal conference live from Oxford! *iHub_ brings TEDGlobal 2010 to you in Nairobi from Wednesday – Friday from 10.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. this week. TEDGlobal 2010 is happening this week in Oxford and is a lineup of amazing speakers, performers and attendees have gathered for four days of [...]

It seems gaming, and more specifically, competitive gaming, is really catching on in Kenya! And this time we’re not talking about NexGen and the World Cyber Games… Apparently there’s a Starcraft League tournament going on right in Nairobi. You can read more about it here. Check out the tournament rules here and sign up here. [...]

The Tech4Africa Conference is soon upcoming and promises to be one of the defining tech events to be held in Africa this year. Sheeran Amod, CEO of Personera, whom we’ve had a chat with before about startups and startup culture in the Silicon Cape, is going to be doing a session in which he hopes [...]

Are you an African digital citizen, or a digital citizen in Africa or a digital citizen interested in Africa?  Well, 7th July is a date for you to watch out for. The Digital Citizen Indaba 5.0 is taking place down in South Africa. The aim… The main objective of the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) is [...]

A major conference on new media and journalism is taking place in South Africa from July 5th through 7th.. Highway Africa is a partnership between Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with the support of several partners, development agencies and sponsors. For eleven years the Highway Africa conference has [...]

CORRECTION: The event is taking place on Monday, 28th, June (today); not Tuesday eVentures Africa Fund (eVA) is a VC firm based in the Netherlands that has a keen focus on investing in Internet and Mobile based tech companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm is currently focused on Ghana and Kenya as investment destinations: The [...]

We have highlighted NexGen and their efforts in promoting gaming in Kenya as a spectator sport. As the FIFA world cup carries on in South Africa, NexGen is just starting it’s road to the World Cyber Games, the World Cup of gaming. This Saturday at the iHub from 10 am to 6 pm, gamers from [...]