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m:lab East Africa will hold its inaugural graduation for the first and second wave trainees on Monday 16th July, 2012 at the iHub Nairobi, from 9: 00 am to 1: 00 pm. The graduation will see 23 graduands awarded certificates in Mobile Apps Development and Entrepreneurship. The chief guest will be Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Permanent [...]
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While looking for an old file, I found this comic that I must have scanned from the Daily Monitor back in 2008. Still love it.
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Religious pluralism and abortion in Turkey. Maysaloon on the lies people tell about the Syrian revolution. A Lebanese action film...
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A fairly-prosaic picture like this is unlikely to excite you -- unless you get off by watching conference pictures of people speaking.
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This week finds me sitting in Botswana. I've talked to a couple startup entrepreneurs; Pule Mmolotsi who is testing out an Oyster-like payment card for public transportation in the country, and Katy Digovich who is creating mHealth apps for the Ministry of Health. While only a small sample, they do a good job of representing [...]
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The folks over at Guatephoto just sent me a message about their 2012 festival - looks like a great event! Definitely worth checking out and submitting - deadline is August 31.
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Book launch in Lagos @ the Jazzhole on Awolowo and Glendora @ Ikeja for Prof. Olufemi Taiwo's new book - Africa Must be Modern: The Modern Imperative in Contemporary Africa - A Manifesto . Of course, I'm a big fan of his 2010 treatise on modernity: How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa. I even pulled quotes and included a visual treatment of it in 3bute #1 - page 2:
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Every time news comes of another tragic incident in our country Nigeria, we cry, shrug our shoulders and move on. The routine condolence messages are sent, a firm statement is made from the presidency, normally to the effect that government will leave no stone unturned in finding those that carried out the dastardly act, a high powered committee is set up, if we are lucky, we will get a Senate hearing......and then we wait for the next tragedy.
While many people would have heard of the death of Senator Dantong Gyang in Jos last weekend, you may not know that he was also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health. He undertook his medical training at at the University of Jos and until his ill-fated foray into politics, was the MD of Vom Christian Hospital.
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By Rhoda Omenya Just in case you missed it, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) released its sector statistics report on Wednesday. Below are some key highlights from the report. The Communications Commission of Kenya released mobile statistics for the third quarter (for the period 1st January 2012 to 31st March 2012) on 10th July [...]
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