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Blog Name: White African
Url: http://www.whiteafrican.com
Language: English
Topics: africa, kenya, web 2.0
Description: Techblog about African web 2.0 issues.
Popularity: 46 Followers

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African Mobile Market, Q2 2009 Numbers
Africa has 415,010,625 mobile phone subscribers, with an average growth rate across the continent of 5.4% between Q1 and Q2 2009. Blycroft does an excellent job of aggregating data on African mob
Quick Hits Around African Tech
South African Startup Index The Business Report is running a South African Startup Index using YouNoodle’s API. Quite cool, I’d love to see someone do this for startups across Africa. The Malawian Who Harnessed the Airwaves Really, it’s an AfriGadget-type story on Gabriel Kondesi who constructed a radio station three years ago, using, among other things, three small transistor radios, car batteries, TV aerials, wires, and a radio cassette
African Connectivity Visualized
Jon Gossier’s Appfrica Labs has put together an amazing infographic on internet connectivity in Africa. Amazing work! “The African continent is rapidly changing. In the next two years 2 billion dollars will bring 12 terabits of connectivity to the continent. Will afr
Creative Juices
What gets you thinking creatively? I’ve been thinking a lot about the need to have more time spent away from the normal timesinks that define our working lives. Getting more dead time. Daydreaming time. Doodling time. My main ways: 1. Daydreaming I had 10 hours of driving time on Friday. That’s the perfect environment for me to get some thinking done, I’m unable to escape to the digital tethers of mobile phone or computer, and reading a book isn’t possible. Therefore I think, and seemingly unrelated patterns start to become apparent from different projects, people and initiatives that I’m involved in.
Tags, Time and Location
On Friday I had a long conversation with Noam Cohen from the New York Times about Ushahidi and Twitter. He was doing some homework for an article he was writing on the increased value that geolocation data can add to the massive streams of data coming out of tools like Twitter, called “Refining the Twitter Explosion with GPS“. A lot of our discussion was centered around location, especially since he was thinking of the Ft. Hood shootings and the value of location in determining useful information from the Twitter stream during

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