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The Dangers of Telling a Single Story: Computers for Kids and Bill Gates 10 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
Creating solutions for one population base in a society does not mean that the others don’t exist. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie gave a great TED Talk, where she said, “There’s a danger in tellin...
Interesting Reads and Links – July 2013 26 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
Open Data for Africa The African Development Bank has put together a great new resource for open data on Africa (200 data sets) at Open Data for Africa. Should be a good resource. The Birth of Kenya...
Savannah Fund Accelerator: Call for 2nd Round 22 Jul 2013 | 11:55 am
The Savannah Fund has been in operation about 8 months now, and has done 5 investments. One at $200k+, one at $75k and three at the accelerator level of $25k each. We’re accepting applications throug...
2013 Kenya Tech Community Survey Results 20 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
It’s interesting to see where the Kenyan tech community went to school, what years we graduated, where we work and what age we first started using computers regularly. As I did in 2010, here are the s...
Mobile and Internet Numbers for East Africa (2013 edition) 17 Jul 2013 | 07:44 pm
iHub Research continues to put out great research for clients. They also take time to put together the numbers for everyone else as far as what’s going on in our part of Africa. Mobile & Internet Sta...
How I Instagram 15 Jul 2013 | 03:42 pm
(This is my daughter at Lake Naivasha at sunrise) Enough people have asked me about how I Instagram that I thought it might be worth creating a post on it. I take a lot of pictures as I travel as it ...
Designing a Kenya Shilling Symbol 15 Jul 2013 | 08:56 am
I make no bones about my admiration for the team at Ark Africa, who I think are possibly the best design house in East Africa. They tend to take on projects of their own, just to think through the pro...
Report: Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa 12 Jul 2013 | 12:43 pm
A couple months back Omidyar Network released a report (with an exhaustively long title, like all reports tend to have), “Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa: Understanding Africa’s Challenges to ...
Africa’s Cowboy Capitalists 9 Jul 2013 | 02:50 pm
I’ve been following Ian Cox via Twitter for some time now. I had no idea there was a video done by Vice about his hustling up in South Sudan and then following him on a treck where he takes 11 vehicle...
The Problem with Hardware in Africa 8 Jul 2013 | 01:17 pm
Recently I wrote about the making of the BRCK here in Nairobi, and I alluded to some of the issues around doing hardware in Africa. “Making things is hard. It’s harder in Africa. I can’t overnight an...
