Monthly Archives: October 2008

LEDNA

Posted on October 12, 2008 by jke

LEDNA – the Local Economic Development Network of Africa. My friend, former colleague and fellow blogger Christian created this lovely site with Drupal on behalf of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC (& UNCDF, gtz, ILO + USAID). … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, kazi, webstuff | 2 Comments

the difference & BarCampAfrica

Posted on October 12, 2008 by jke

Back in 1998 when a group of two friends and I applied for venture capital for a smart mobile phone-related web project*, we were told that VCs in the US would normally finance 100 projects and call it a success … Continue reading →

Posted in africa, biashara, studies, thoughts | 1 Comment

reality mining – as in “let’s face reality”

Posted on October 8, 2008 by jke

A rather older news item that triggered my interest, especially since I saw Eagle Eye last night – a Hollywood movie that deals with a super surveillance computer gone wild in a “2001: A Space Odyssey“-sense: Mobiles are assigned a … Continue reading →

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Skype Mobile (Beta) [updated]

Posted on October 8, 2008 by jke

Following this post about a new Skype Mobile (Beta), I couldn’t resist and installed the latest version of Skype Mobile on the Nokia N95. Upon registering your mobile number on the Skype Mobile download page, an sms will arrive with … Continue reading →

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JKE is GTD, part 1

Posted on October 2, 2008 by jke

Working as an external consultant, I really needed to reorganize my personal organiser and put it in a much more effective combination. my old personal organiser Imagine I’ve been using this traditional filofax (“file of facts”) system for the last … Continue reading →

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