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    African Tech Joins Up

    Smartphone showing radar

    By developing its developers, Africa’s tech sector hopes to go from ping to kerching. Time was when African software developers didn’t register on Silicon Valley’s radar. No undersea fibre optic cables meant that there wasn’t much of a digital infrastructure in most of sub-Saharan Africa and so accessing and developing its software market… >>>

  • Dawn of African Tech

    African countries are trying to “cheat history,” as one senior UN official I met put it. Barely literate people in the poorest villages, places where there are no schools and the life expectancy is under 50 due to lack of health infrastructure, use mobile phones to listen to the radio, send money, buy… >>>

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    iPhone Knows

    Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you’ve been. Pete Warden Apple’s iPhone contains a secret file which keeps track of everywhere you go, say researchers. 110420 Guardian >>>

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    We Are Here

    Mapping Kibera

    Visiting pop stars and politicians made it famous. It featured in the Oscar-winning movie The Constant Gardner. But look at a map and you’ll strain your eyes trying to locate the tin shacks and mud huts of Kibera. Although one of Africa’s more densely populated areas – some 250,000 people crammed into 2.3… >>>

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    London’s Silicon Valley

    With help from Facebook and Google, David Cameron wants east London to take on Silicon Valley. But his top-down approach misses the point, says Joe White, CEO of London-based web design service Moonfruit: "If we need more grass roots, then large tech corporate sponsors are not the answer. Supporting local entrepreneurs who can… >>>

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    Mob Rules

    Mobile phone kiosk

    Africa’s mobile phone kiosks: tech hubs set to rival Silicon Valley? In the West, there’s an app for everything. In Africa, so goes the latest business/development mantra, there’s the mobile phone kiosk. The noise around Africa’s diy mobile phone culture sometimes sounds like a faint repeat of the dotcom hype from 1990s San… >>>

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    Google CEO talks privacy

    Your privacy online? Who cares about it? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, that’s who: Those concerns are real – I’m not trying to move away from them. The fact of the matter is that if you’re online all the time, computers are generating a lot of information about you. This is not a Google… >>>