On 11th and 12th of July I will be presentating in Mainz at the conference of Rwandan Diaspora Germany e.V. Its about „Abanyarwanda baba mu budage nk’inkingi y’iterambere rirambye mu Rwanda“ („Ruandische Diaspora in Deutschland als Akteur für die nachhaltige Entwicklung in Ruanda“ - Rwandan Diaspora in Germany as a actor for sustanable development in Rwanda). Thanks to president Providence Tuyisabe for the invitation.
228 attendees were counted at the barcamp Nairobi 2008. You can find a recap from White African and from deeper meaning online. And there are Videos from the barcamp on Youtube, too. Read the rest of this entry »
China’s Huawei Technologies, a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, is seeking to expand its services to become a dominant player in telecom services in East Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
The Rwandan government wants to use advanced information communication technologies, or ICTs, to transform its traditionally agricultural society into what has been dubbed “the Singapore of Africa”. Read the rest of this entry »
The European-African Business Summit in Hamburg. Round about 150 delegates - a much lower digit than expected. But I have the pleasure to present Open-Source-Africa. And there are lot of very good talks and contacts, too.
The Ajegunle.org project is community-based capacity building project targeting the youths of Ajegunle slum in Lagos. The aims to train some 25 youths each other month, who “will be equipped with ICT and entrepreneurship skills which they will then pass on to other youth, along with starting their own business”, as Africa Loft writes. Read the rest of this entry »
“We are five years behind US and Europe”, the first South African multimedia news paper maker said. “But we definitely catching on”. An interview that took place between Colin Daniels, former New Media Strategy Manager at The Times and Mandlakazi Mpahlwa, host of the Kaleidoscope show at CNBCAfrica:
Experience has shown a weakening U.S. economy would be good for open source, as a shortage of cash is usually a major catalyst for innovation, particularly around open-source applications, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, said at the annual Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco.
The presentation below summarizes the findings of the 2008 Future of Open Source survey led by North Bridge Venture Partners in partnership with Acquia, Ingres, SugarCRM, Sun and Ubuntu. The results were presented at the 2008 Infoworld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco as part of a panel discussion led by Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners.
The modern IT industry in Africa driven by the lack of foreign customers. Big international IT companies are trying to open African markets for their mainly proprietary software and/or their own business agendas. The governments of the African countries have neither the time nor the money to focus on SMEs in the IT field. Similarly, as the regional and national governments in the European countries, they have to concentrate on existing IT cores, such as the state owned telephone companies, subsidiaries of international companies and companies, focused on the e-governmental needs of the states itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Forbes wirtes today about the rising salaries of Indian programmers under the title “The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing”:
However, the reality is that wages are rising in India. The cost advantage for offshoring to India used to be at least 1:6. Today, it is at best 1:3. Attrition is scary.
And the resume about this fact for the Forbes editors?
Jobs that are low value-added and easily automatable should and will disappear over the next decade.
The software as a service (SaaS) megatrend in technology also plays against India, they said. But mainly, in the terms of payment - the times plays for Africa.
