Mac-Jordan Degadjor
Blogger, New Media Consultant & Technologist
Report: How Africa Use The Social Networking Tool – Twitter.
022 hours ago
Most people these days think the social networking tool – Twitter is an American or European phenomenon, but you’ll be surprised how heavily it is been used on the African continent based on research findings by Portland Communications and Tweetminster from the last three (October, November & December) months of 2011.
Twitter map: how Africa tweets
Young people tweeting from mobile devices are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa. This pan-African analysis of Twitter traffic was complemented by a survey of 500 of Africa’s most active Tweeters.
How Africa Tweets found:
BBC Africa Debate: Is an “African Spring” Looming on the 2012 Horizon?
21 day ago
While researching towards this article, I couldn’t use any quote to support my opening than borrowing this from the BBC:
“Democracy does not begin and end with the ballot box”
I vividly remember how the socio-political and economic grievances in Tunisia forced the computer science graduate- turned-fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi to set himself ablaze on Dec 17, 2010 which sparked the Arab Spring. On Jan. 14, just 10 days after Bouazizi died President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali‘s 23-year rule of Tunisia was over.
In case you’re in a fix and don’t know, what exactly the Arab Spring is about; here’s a brief explanation -
The Arab Spring, otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests which occurred (still on-going in some parts of the Arab world) More >
200+ Young Leaders Under 30 Met in Lisbon to Plot the Future – SandBox
02 days ago
Who is going to lead the world in 20 years? What would have happened if established global leaders met not only when they were in their 50s, but already when they were in their 20s?
While many eyes are on the WEF in Davos next week, Sandbox, the foremost global network of exceptional innovators under 30 already this weekend (from 20 to 22 January) gathered 200 high-profile members from 32 countries in Europe’s City of the Year. The goal of the first ever Sandbox Global Summit was to foster meaningful relationships and ultimately accelerate the participants’ positive impact, through peer-to-peer sharing sessions and different bonding activities. The Summit also led to the creation of the Sandbox Playbook – rules that Sandboxers live and act by and could shape tomorrow’s world.
Over three More >
A Village Blogger’s Guide To The African Cup of Nations – AFCONS 2012
36 days ago
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THE 28th Africa Cup of Nations tournament is jointly hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon which kicked off in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea yesterday.
The former has never qualified for an African Cup of Nations before and will be an unknown quantity to most observers of this year’s tournament whilst the latter have competed in just four previous tournaments and have only progressed beyond the group stage on just one occasion when reaching the last eight in 1996.
Duration & TeamsThe tournament will be played over 22 days. There will be six match-free days in-between, meaning, there will be 16-match days. For the most part, there will be two matches daily. All matches will be televised live on SuperSport 4. Sixteen countries (sweet sixteen) will be taking part in the More >
Google Apologizes to Kenyan Search Directory Start-up: Mocality
01 week ago
In my previous article: “Google In An Unethical Practice With African Start-up: Mocality“, I wrote about how Google was been accused by Kenyan business search engine Mocality for scraping their client database and using the information obtained to market their Getting Kenyan Businesses Online initiative, KBO, which sought to host Kenyan businesses by creating free websites for them.
In a lengthy post titled ‘Google what were you thinking’ on their blog, Mocality provided detailed evidence against which they backed their allegations against Google. This includes a recorded audio conversation between a Google Kenya representative and Mocality (disguised as a local business in need of a free website). Mocality also reported to have monitored the IP addresses scraping their databases and More >
Google In An Unethical Practice With African Start-up: Mocality
02 weeks ago
Mocality – a business directory start-up by Stefan Magdalinski with a Kenyan-wide coverage accuses search-engine giant; Google of antitrust-style behavior with its Google+ search integration.
You should read Mocality’s blog post about the situation in full, but below is a summary:
As we all know, there are no Kenyan Yellow pages, so the business directory from Mocality was crowd-sourced; paying over Ksh. 11m (over $100,000) to thousands of Kenyans to help create and validate its database of business & ventures in Kenya and also help them advertise themselves on the Web.
Not long after Google Kenya helped kick-start a program to get Kenyan businesses online, the start-up suddenly started fielding calls from Kenyan business owners with questions about a supposed partnership/joint-venture More >
Infoline: SMS Powered Business Directory in Ghana
22 weeks ago
Determined to provide an avenue for businesses to reach and connect with customers efficiently, Edward Amartey-Tagoe; co-founder of Nandimobile is focused on creating platforms which empower connections between businesses in Ghana and their customers. They launched a new product, Infoline, one of the biggest mobile business directories in Ghana.
Infoline is simply a business directory service that enables mobile users in Ghana search businesses from a directory of over 18,000 local businesses in Ghana via SMS. A search result typically constitutes business name, contact details, business address or directions and the business sector.
How Infoline works
The process involved in getting information about a business in Ghana from the platform is pretty simple. From any mobile network in More >
