Huawei successfully launched its All-Optical Intelligent home showcase on the sidelines of the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town. Powered by Huawei’s latest Fiber…
This last week I was in Edinburgh, Scotland at the TEDGlobal conference. As always, it was filled with inspiring talks, great conversations and I…
Google has done what few other tech companies have done on this continent. Having 54 countries to scale across isn’t easy. However, in a…
Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this…
I recently discovered Afrographique, a site that does data visualisations on African data. It’s done by Ivan Colic, a South African designer, as a…
There’s a lot happening in and around the African tech scene. Take a look at some of the most important developments. Umbono: Google’s South…
More than two and a half years ago Twitter shut down all operations in Africa. Back then, in August of 2008, it really didn’t…
Michael Joseph was the CEO of Safaricom, taking the mobile operator from 5 employees to dominating the Kenyan mobile operator market with over 80%…
In the words of African telecommunications expert Steve Song, Village Telco is “an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit”. He’s just…
In 2008 a couple of tech guys sitting around a table after Barcamp Nairobi first discussed the idea that eventually would become the heart…
Last week I got a visit from Peter Afam Emeleogu, an old contact from TED Africa in 2007. We’ve both been busy in the…