Tag Archives: Africa

Mobile Web Africa 2009 – Get Your Free Ticket!

Posted 01 September 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Advertising, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 12 Comments

Matthew Dawes is organising Mobile Web Africa 2009 on the 13 and 14 October at the Michelangelo, and has kindly offered a range of freebies and discounts for me to promote to you, the cream of South Africa’s technology crop! I will certainly be making an effort to attend – the speaker line-up and [...]

Why I Blog About Africa

Posted 05 January 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Life, etc. | 7 Comments

Erik has tagged me as part of the “Why I Blog About Africa” meme.
It’s proved a tough one to answer. I blog about Africa primarily because I was born here, I guess. I sometimes feel guilty calling myself African because in many ways South Africa is to Africa as America is to the [...]

TECH4FRICA Website Launched

Posted 25 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 1 Comment

TECH4FRICA, a “web and emerging technology conference for Africa” being organised by Gareth Knight (of Kindo fame) has officially launched it’s website with info about the upcoming event.
It’s due to be held at The Forum in Bryanston over 3 and 4 October and already at this early stage has a very impressive speaker line up.
I [...]

Erik Hersman’s AfriGadget.com Named One Of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites Of 2008

Posted 17 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 2 Comments

My good mate Erik Hersman is passionate about techology and passionate about Africa. He has combined these brilliantly in the recent past in the shape of projects like Ushahidi and AfriGadget. He’s been rewarded for his outstanding efforts by having AfriGadget named as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 top sites of 2008 alongside the likes of Yahoo! Answers Health.com, Mint and more.