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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 [...]

Very recently Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican) was interviewed by CNBC Africa for their ‘East Africa Business Report show. The interview was done at the iHub (on the balcony). It covers things to do with iHub and Ushahidi. The tech space in Kenya is buzzing with activity, innovators are excited about the prospects and opportunities that are [...]

This has to be one of the most interesting podcast so far. Crystal Kigoni (@VOA_Crystal) is a social entrepreneur/innovator in Kenya. She is the founder of Voices of Africa for Sustaniable Development through Information Empowerment (VOA4SD). Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development (VOA) is registered as a non-governmental organization in Kenya. Our vision is to [...]

Very recently we did an article surveying some prominent startups/projects in/from Africa built around a crowdsourcing model. One of these was IdeaBounty from South Africa which is using crowdsourcing to get ideas for creative work (such as advertising and marketing campaigns) for big brands. They’ve done work for brands such as FNB, Capitec (both are [...]

Business Process Outsourcing has for a long time been billed as a possible growth industry in Kenya. The landing of several submarine fiber optic cables connecting the Kenyan coast to the rest of the world were seen as heralding the age of BPO in Kenya. The Ministry of ICT and the ICT board on many [...]

Content made in Africa! In the fairly recent past we have covered Afrigator and myScoop, both of which are African (blog) content aggregators. This time, we take a look at Maneno, a content (blog) platform built with African content in mind. Maneno is actually a swahili word meaning “words“. We asked the people behind Maneno [...]

The Digital Edge, a South African podcast focusing on digital marketing has a fantastic podcast with a bunch of Web 2.0. entrepreneurs: Sheraan Amod (Afrinnovator did a podcast with Sheraan recently): Sheraan is the 24 year-old Co-Founder of Personera.com, a global personalized publishing service offering useful print products enhanced with Facebook content. In 2009 Personera won the FNB Enablis Business Launchpad [...]

This is the last in a series of interview posts from a discussion with Ken Banks, the founder of Kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS. In the first part of the interview, Ken gave us some of his background and how he came to get involved with mobile technology and how the FrontlineSMS project began. In the second [...]

In the third part of our interview with Ken Banks, founder of Kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, we continue our discussion about FrontlineSMS. This time we discuss about projects such as FrontlineSMS:Medic and FrontlineSMS:Credit which are specific applications of FrontlineSMS to ‘vertical’ scenarios such as medicine and informal banking. In the first part of the interview, Ken [...]

We continue our conversation with Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS. In the first part of the interview, Ken gave us some of his background and how he came to get involved with mobile technology and how the FrontlineSMS project began. In this second part we delve more into FrontlineSMS… Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself [...]