Eben via ICT4D feed entdeckt: AfrikaCamp Wien Jaenner 2009
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Follow-up zum BarCampAfrica in Mountain View
Afrika muss imho viel mehr in den Fokus des europäischen Bewusstseins gerückt werden (gibt es so etwas überhaupt? Jedenfalls: Afrika + Europa = imho gemeinsame Zukunft)
Ich war noch nie in Wien und würde dann gerne auch Afrah und [...]

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).
Christian actually tested his design on me and others some time ago, using Silverback and directly implemented [...]

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 if 10 out of 100 would take off. Contrary to that, this “success rate” was [...]

Just in line with my previous series on mobile blogging, check out the following:

Add this for other mobile operating systems (other than Nokia’s S60 line - though Series 60 is quite good for this special task), combine it with a monetary incentive programme (~ citizen reporters get paid in terms of airtime or via M-Pesa [...]

Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo chi nyaay is a Wolof proverb meaning “slowly slowly (it) catches the monkey in the bush” (~ no hurry in Africa).
Ndanka ndanka…also is a running gag between my colleague Abdoulaye and me - and it somehow describes my pleasant anticipation for the really good stuff out there on the internet: [...]

A animated flash advertisement when I logged off my webmailer led me to the page of Volvic fuer UNICEF, an initiative between (the water brand) Volvic and UNICEF that provides a simple marketing idea:
Buy 1 litre of Volvic naturelle water and they (Volvic) will pay the equivalent of 10 litres in form of financial aid [...]

…it is an informal settlement, not an illegal.
We had approached the mayor with a detailed baseline study of all problems, sorted to their priority and asked him for help. He replied that “it’s an illegal settlement”. - “No”, I then replied, “it is not, it’s just informal. Sir, you always use this explanation as [...]

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative - yeah, “nice” - but let’s look at reality and at what we can / what we’ve already done in the past: inheriting a used, older computer to a member of the extended family - I call it the One Laptop Per Family initiative :-)
Be it in Europe, [...]