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At Afrinnovator, we LOVE great applications of technology. AfricaUnsigned.com (twitter: @AfricaUnsigned) is just one of those ones that really takes the World Wide Web and turns it to some pretty good use, in the process helping out many young, talented people. The premise behind AfricaUnsigned is basically to connect potential musical talent from the African [...]

Zoopedup is a South African car blog turned social network built for people with a passion for cars. The site was started by one of South Africa’s influential techpreneurs, Charl Norman who took his passion for the Internet and combined it with a passion for cars to produce one of South Africa’s biggest home grown social networks. Today [...]

Moses Kemibaro reports on his blog… AccessKenya today appointed Mr. Daniel Ndonye as the new Chairman of the Board. This follows the resignation of Mr. Michael Somen who has tendered his resignation as the Chairman of the Board of the Group. Mr. Ndonye’s appointment takes effect immediately. As Chairman, Michael had led the board of the company since its [...]

Cape Town crowdsourcing platform IdeaBounty is definitely growing in leaps and bounds, taking on more and more challenging crowdsourcing tasks for its clients. We’ve featured the platform severally and even done a podcast with their MD, Daniel Neville. IdeaBounty is now taking on providing it’s crowdsourcing platform to Chevrolet, giving creatives from all over the [...]

Very recently we featured Zoopy – the South African video and photo sharing social site – for their new iPhone app. On July 4th, the site won the “Highway Africa New Media award” in the corporate category. The award is aimed at promoting the use of new media to advance press freedom on the continent [...]

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 [...]

iHub seems to be carrying on a lot of activity of late. Just days following the biggest and baddest Barcamp in Africa yet, the iHub hosted the SwiftRiver team for a day of introducing the community to the SwiftRiver initiative. Getting Started with SwiftRiver – Batuque from Ushahidi on Vimeo. Jon Gosier is the team [...]

We’ve uploaded our photos from Barcamp Nairobi that was held this past Saturday and Sunday. Apparently there were about 600 attendees on Saturday alone and nearly 250 on Sunday, making it probably the biggest Barcamp ever in Africa and maybe even one of the largest in Africa. A big congratulations to the team that set [...]

We are at Barcamp/Wherecamp Nairobi live blogging the action as it happens. Enjoy: BarCamp Nairobi / WhereCamp Nairobi