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Finding Africa’s Innovators
[These are my notes from my talk at TEDxAntananarivo in Madagascar today] There are 2 things I’m going to leave you with today. One is a changing story of Africa, where the West is beginning to see...
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The Kenyan Mobile Money Ecosystem
[This is a guest post by Ben Lyon of Kopo Kopo, and recently of FrontlineSMS:Credit, who I consider to be one of the leading experts on mobile money, banking and payments in Africa. Kopo Kopo aims to...
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The Afrilabs Association
In 2008 a couple of tech guys sitting around a table after Barcamp Nairobi first discussed the idea that eventually would become the iHub. In January 2010 there was another group, this time of people...
View ArticleAn Evening with Chinery-Hesse and Negroponte
Next week I’ll be in London to speak at the 21st Century Challenges event put on by the Royal Geographic Society with a focus on “Digital Technology in Africa“. Besides that main event, it will be a...
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The Subtle Condescension of “ICT4D”
I have cognitive dissonance over the term “ICT4D“. The term “ICT4D” is confusing, hypocritical and has a whiff of condescension that makes me cringe. As I understand it, it’s what NGO’s do in places...
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Our Voices Revolutionize the World
[The following is from my Institute of Medicine Talk on communications technologies for violence prevention in Washington DC today. A good background paper to get started on the context of tech in...
View Article20th Century Parallels
At the beginning, they shared an excitement about technology, an optimism for the future, and even a certain clumsiness in getting down to business. While that quote sounds a lot like our current state...
View ArticleSkoll: Entrepreneurs in a Time of Flux
“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill The theme of the 2012 Skoll World Forum is “Flux: seizing momentum, driving change”, which I think is a fantastic one....
View ArticleThe iHub UX Lab and Supercomputer Cluster
When I look at the tech scene in Africa, there is a single question that consistently runs through my mind. What foundational parts of the technology ecosystem do we own, and what are we reliant on...
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Community Connectedness as a Competitive Advantage
In the last couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to be in Nigeria (Maker Faire Africa), followed by South Africa (AfricaCom). Along with Kenya, these countries represent the biggest technology...
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