Mobile

  • SasaAfrica | A storefront for African Vendors

    September 17, 2012
    SasaAfrica has created an online storefront for vendors in under served communities which uses MMS uploads, SMS notifications, and mobile payments. Aimed at shortening the distance between credit-based consumers and developing nation vendors, SasaAfrica.com. According to the team behind SasaAfrica, their main goal is to provide an online storefront...

  • Mobile Web East-Africa 2012 – Nairobi, Kenya

    February 20, 2012
    The East Africa edition of the All Amber organized mobile technology conferences, Mobile Web East Africa 2012, is set to take place in Nairobi on the 22nd and 23rd of this month. The conference is supported by Kenya’s *iHub and m:lab East Africa. The conference is organized by UK based company All...

  • Bright B. Simmons Named Among 2011 Innovators Challenge Winners

    December 5, 2011
    Congratulations to Bright B. Simmons (TED Fellow) named one of the top mobile health innovators of 2011 by the mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation. Bright Simmons is the founder of mPedigree, a mobile phone and cloud-computing platform designed to combat counterfeit drugs by providing instant, free access via text-messaging...

  • Event: Mobile Apps Ghana Showcase 2011

    September 13, 2011
    Don’t be surprised at innovations and ideas coming from Africa; but rather embrace them because Africa is the future. – Erik Hersman (TEDGlobal2011) One word that keeps coming out of the lips of most tech-preneurs these days in Africa and Ghana is; INNOVATION. Across Africa; especially in Kenya, Ghana,...

  • Google's Gmail Free SMS in Ghana

    March 18, 2010
    Since I heard about the introduction of the Free SMS by Google at the Ghana Google Technology User Group meet-up on March 5th, 2010; I have always been trying out the Google SMS and trust me, it sure works. I have been in communication with a couple of...