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Musings on the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Past, Present & Future – Afrinnovator
Kenya has come to be closely associated with technology innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of mobile technology, raising the country’s profile internationally as…
Scaling Internet-Based Startups in African Markets – Afrinnovator
We’ve all heard of the idea that entrepreneurs are people who see a ‘gap’ in the market and then create a product or service to…
Kenya’s Propensity to Crowdsource
About two weeks ago, following a strike by transport operators in Kenya, residents of the capital city Nairobi resorted to social media to solve the…
The Silicon Savannah: Of Vanity Capital and Vanity Companies
NAIROBI – Here at ground zero for the new era of African innovation, investors are learning what an impact investing “bubble” looks like. Too much…
Disruptive Innovation in the African Tech Context
What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean for…
Systems Thinking Applied To Why M-Pesa’s Economic Impact and Wealth Creation Lessons Affects the Ecosystem and Not Just the Bottom of the Pyramid
Niti Bhan is Founder at the Emerging Futures Lab. Niti integrates her multidisciplinary background in business, design and engineering with a global perspective to offer immediately…
Infographic: Mobile Web Africa 2012 Visualised including Statistics, Quotes and Insights
This past week, we covered Mobile Web Africa 2012 and we started coverage with 5 reasons to attend as well as live coverage that you can relive Day…
The Role of Government in Promoting Tech Innovation in Africa
In talking about the efforts to promote technology and innovation in Africa, we tend to focus a lot of attention on private initiatives such as…
Doing Tech Business in Africa: A Few Lessons from Twitter’s Rise in Africa
Very recently Portland Communications released some data from research carried to find out about the usage of Twitter in Africa. The report was received quite well…
Necessity & Invention: Africa’s story of mobile conquest & why utility beats ‘coolness’
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and indeed that could perfectly describe Africa where it comes to innovation particularly on mobile. Utility…