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  • An egg, a spoon and Ursula

    Egg and spoon

    “I’ve never seen a gold egg spoon, but I’m sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can’t coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is short, for good balance and… >>>

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    Outage Africa?

    Women working on solar lighting circuit boards.

    As entrepreneurs spark change, Africa’s electricity future is getting brighter. Women working on solar lighting circuit boards.Photo Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh With the blessing of global institutions increasingly worried by the prospect of climate change, entrepreneurs are hacking out a small-scale, low-carbon path to universal African electrification. What’s encouraging them is the enthusiasm… >>>

  • Cable Commotion

    As Africa’s rush for broadband connection continues, Steve Song’s map of African undersea cables can’t help but get tangled up:: I am gobstopped again with the announcement of the BRICs cable. I struggle now to find ways to represent all the impending capacity on a single map without it looking like a dog’s… >>>

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    Brain Gain Or Drain?

    Africa’s got software talent… but for how much longer? What do African techies make of Silicon Valley? What might Silicon Valley make of them? No Prada suits, hoodies or flip flops. No algorithms stolen off dorm room windows. None of that Social Network, San Francisco stuff. Steve Mutinda’s award-winning mobile health app may… >>>

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    Kenya’s Konza Technology City

    Kenya’s plan for a 5,000-acre “Silicon Savannah” some 30 miles from Nairobi. >>>

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    Facebook Misstep? Yeah?

    So Facebook hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google. What you gonna do about it? Get over it, already… although it isn’t right, obviously… MG Siegler on the latest Facebook “slimeball stunt”: Like it or not, Facebook is too integrated into the fabric of the web now for everyone to… >>>

  • Africa’s Mobile Future(s)

    Mobile Trends 2020 Africa

    Find out what’s ahead: “Mobile Trends Africa 2020”. >>>