Africa Technology and Investment Digest Week 2
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Nicco Mele Launches NewsJunk.com
Nicco’s career began as a member of the technical staff for various
political campaigns, in particular the presidential campaigns of Howard
Dean, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama AND John McCain! It’s an
impressive resume, for his skills but also for the bipartisan nature.
It’s no surprise then, that his latest project would be a website that
pulls in information about politics from all across the web and
centralizes it in one place. [Read More]
Open Learning Exchange Aims to Offer Basic Education For All by 2015
G8 Summit Turns it’s Attention towards Africa, Climate and Oil
Africa has never had more of the worlds attention than it does now.
Partly because of the abundance of untapped resources but also because
of the possibilities for more trade and new markets. With the recent
rate at which China has completely changed it’s course as a nation to
become an inevitable world economic superpower, all eyes are on other
parts of the world that have the potential to do the same. Africa is
one of them. [Read More]
The Economist: Is Africa Recovering?
A recent report from the World Bank has some interesting findings related to the African continent… [Read More]
Using Google Earth to Encourage African Tourism
Startup & Change the World: Guide for Social Entrepreneurs
Slides from the Young Social Enterprise Initiative’s guidebook for Social Startups. [Read More]
Was South Africa’s Afrigator Ripped off By Regator?
When Armageddon came out in theatres, Asteroid wasn’t too far behind.
Likewise, Earthquake was succeeded by Volcano, another natural disaster
movie. When the Bentley went luxury, Hyundai prepped their knock off. Recently this trend of ‘copying’ (a.k.a. stealing ideas) moved to the web when Yahoo was accused of copying Digg.com’s interface. Now, the African blogosphere is abuzz with allegations that South Africa’s own Afrigator was victim to a stealthy feature and brand clone. The accused is the newly launched, Regator. [Read More]
Shine2010 is being marketed as an online
social networking platform which offers a place for South Africans to
congregate, learn and communicate in the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World
CupTM. The project was sponsored by the First National Bank of South Africa. [Read More]
China Wins Ethiopian Development Deal
Ethiopia’s national network will be built by China’s second-largest
telecoms gear maker, ZTE. The network, which will allow Ethiopia
Telecommunications Corp to provide next-generation network services,
will cover 14 major cities in the east African country including the
capital, Addis Ababa, ZTE said in a statement. Read the rest at IT News Africa.
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