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...
Topics: africa, african, appfrica, connectivity, infographic, information, internet, map, mapping, web

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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....
Topics: creativity, doodle, inspiration, time

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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...
Topics: ft hood, geo, geolocation, information, location, mapping, maps, Mobile, tags, time, twitter, ushahidi

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A lot of people are on Twitter these days. So many, it seems that you can be overwhelmed by the number of people and it’s hard to find the right people to follow. To help with that, I’ve created a my own Twitter list that follows African...
Topics: africa, african, list, tech, technology, twitter, twitter list

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If you’ve run into me in the last couple months you’ll likely have heard me talking a lot about the need, power and abilities of trusted intermediaries. What is a trusted intermediary? It’s someone who sits between two parties,...
Topics: africa, bridger, Business, intermediary, trust, trusted, trusted intermediaries, xenophile

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