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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 [...]

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 [...]

Zoopy is a video and image sharing site much like YouTube that was born in South Africa. Today, Zoopy has announced the availability of it’s iPhone App available for download from iTunes. We at Afrinnovator.com host our videos on Zoopy as part of our ‘Use African, Grow African’ policy (of sorts). As much as possible [...]

You can now enjoy your GMail on a Swahili or Amharic localized interface. Simply go to the language settings and switch to the new language. Kudos to Google for the localization efforts!

UPDATE: Pizza will be available. Please register to make planning easier. Following the recent Swift River ‘crash course’ at the iHub, we are planning a similar event for developers interested in getting involved in contributing to Ushahidi. This is the second Ushahidi 101 session the first having primarily focused on Ushahidi from a deployment point [...]

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

Last weekend the iHub hosted the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon, as part of a global event that saw people from different cities around the world gathering to hack on projects aimed at some kind of social good. Read summaries from day 1 and day 2 on the ihub blog. Erik (@whiteafrican) captured some of [...]

Just a few days from the World Cup kick off and Google Street view has just gone live in SA. Memburn and Bandwidth Blog have pieces on the launch: Memburn says that South Africa’s elephants are the first ones ever on Street View: It’s not every day that you find an elephant in Street View, [...]