Appfricast

Appfricast 20 – The Consumerist

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:05:33 +0000

Mark Kaigwa is the co-founder of a startup that crowdsources consumer complaints to encourage engagement and action from the companies and brands they’re about. You might call it the GetSatisfaction of Kenya. He and I had a chat at the iHub launch in Kenya about entrepreneurship, the importance of co-founders, and following your vision. Download the Podcast | Subscribe to RSS

Links From the Show

GotIssuez.com

Mark Zuckerberg Mocks Facebook Users

Facebook Privacy Policy Longer than the Constitution

Appfricast 19 – Curating and Verifying Realtime News

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:09:06 +0000

Information wants to be flow and it wants to flow torrentially. Twitter, SMS, E-mail, RSS and more offer unprecedented access to first-hand accounts of events. But with these methods for delivery comes the deluge of overwhelming re-tweets, cross-chatter, spam and inaccuracies. How do you distinguish signal from noise? How can you automate the process of filtering content into more manageable portions without sacrificing accuracy and relevancy? Are there ways to then distribute trust and authority across the internet?

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For those of you unfamiliar with what I’m doing with SwiftRiver, please checkout the video and links below.

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LINKS

Robert Scoble on the Curation of Realtime Information
John Bracken on Distributed Trust, Identity, Reputation and Anonymity
Patrick Meier From Netsourcing to Turksourcing
The SwiftRiver website – http://swift.ushahidi.com

CORRECTIONS

In this podcast I mistakenly attribute the creation of the Twitter hashtag to Jason Calacanis (Mahalo). It’s actually Chris Messina who’s widely credited with their creation back in 2007. He currently works at Google.

Photo by Calamur

Appfricast 18 – A Chat with Tim Berners-Lee

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:03:58 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web visits Kampala to discuss the history of the web as well as the future of the semantic web, the mobile web, and Africa’s opportunities. Recorded at TEDxKampala on Nov 23, 2009.

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LINKS

Tim Berners-Lee’s TED Talk
ReadWriteWeb’s Interview with Tim
Q&A Session with Tim at TEDxKampala

Appfricast 17 – Google Earth Gets Around

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:49:42 +0000

Rebecca Moore of Google talks Google Earth, Google Earth Outreach, Sketchup and Maps. Also a bit about TEDxKampala, the new Android Phone and AfricaGIS in Kampala, Uganda.

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About Google Earth Outreach…

Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them.

Links from the Show

Google Earth Outreach

Hacking Google Earth for Katrina

A Closer Look At Africa

Photo: by Think_Mobi

Appfricast 16 – Ujima and the Future of Journalism

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:17:57 +0000

Reporter Ron Nixon of the New York Times recently sat down with me to discuss the future of journalism and his own project, Ujima.

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What is Ujima? From the project’s website:

The Ujima Project is a new experiment in journalistic transparency. The Web site offers African journalists, nongovernmental organizations and others seeking factual data access to information that is not readily available in many African countries. The project operates on the premise of reverse transparency, taking database, documents and other information from donor countries — The United States, European Union, for example — and providing it in an easily searchable manner. Want to know what NGOs are doing in your country? The Ujima Project can provide some of the answers. Want to know how much your government is spending to influence policy in the United States or to promote its image abroad? The Ujima Project can assist with that as well.

One blogger’s reaction:

Pulling a thread on the Ujima database can take you to the most unexpected dark places, where dirty secrets are kept, and show you the most unlikely bed partners. And that’s what’s so fascinating about it, and so outrageous at the same time. I truly hope that many journalists will feel the same way and make good use of all that info.

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So it’s basically an invaluable treasure chest of data on the flow of money to and from Africa, mostly related to aid but not only.

Links from the Show

NYT’s Genius Geeks Don’t Know How to Save it Either

The New York Time’s Geeks Speak and they have Much to Say

Ujima Project – Show Me the Money!

Ron’s Articles at the NYT

The Great Lakes Media Institute

Appfricast 15 – A Conversation With Meklit

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:26:18 +0000

Meklit Hadero is a singer, songwriter, thinker and activist who exudes passion for the arts and her native Ethiopia. She’s a member of the Red Poppy Art House, a San Francisco artspace, venue and hub. Later this year, she and more than a dozen creatives of the Ethiopian diaspora will travel from all over the world to converge on their home, to celebrate art and culture. She was also a 2009 TED Oxford Fellow where we met a few weeks go, and I’ve been enthralled by her album EIGHT SONGS ever since. Meklit’s songs are reminiscent of the red dust omnipresent in sub-Saharan Africa; inviting, ancient, anguished yet resilient and lingering. If nothing else listen to this episode for the music contained inside.

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Links From the Show

MeklitHadero.com – Eight Songs

CD Baby – Buy the Album

SF Gate Profile – Meklit Hadero opens up to the world as soloist

Appfricast 14 – ExhausTED

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:22:45 +0000

After returning from TED Global 2009 Jon talks about what it’s like to present on the TED stage, what it’s like to be a fellow and what the TED community is like. Also Teddy Ruge from ProjectDiaspora.org drops by Appfrica Labs for a quick interview about his latest projects and how he was almost an Olympic decathlete! Also a few surprise announcements!

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Links From the Show

TED.com – Ideas Worth Sharing

TED Fellows – the Ted Fellows Blog

Project Diaspora – Mobilizing the African Diaspora

Appfricast 13 – Ask Us Anything

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:17:41 +0000

Ask Us Anything. Audio interviews with participants in Grameen’s CKW program and users of the ‘all questions answered’ service, Questionbox. Details about Question Box’s pilot in Uganda where we’re headed and the results of some of our research. Also, Jon talks about Google’s new SMS applications, Uganda’s plan to ban used computers, the real-time web, and the death of Michael Jackson?

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Links From the Show

World Wants to Know – real-time visualization of questions around the world

Grameen CKW Program – community knowledge workers

Grameen Applab – applying technology solutions to development

Google SMS Apps – SMS Search, SMS Tips and SMS Trader

Quincy Jones on MJ’s Death – Candid thoughts from Quincy Jones on his friend MJ

Uganda Wants to ban Used Computers – My thoughts

Appfricast 12 – Balancing Act

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:08:22 +0000

Balancing Act. Russell Southwood from the Balancing Act consultancy sits down with Natalie and I to discuss consumer protection rights, the future of technology in Africa and mobile currency systems MTN Mobile Money and Safaricom’s MPesa. Russell’s group Balancing Act seeks to be the primary source for information on the telecoms, Internet and audio-visual media industries in Africa.

Also. Jon talks about Microsoft Bing, Google Wave, Google Squared and becoming a TED Fellow!

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Links From the Show

Balancing Act – A free weekly e-letter/web site on the state of the internet in Africa. Regular items: news, business model, new software, web sites.

mpesa – Safaricom’s massive mobile commerce service

Mtnmobile Money – Wire money with your mobile

The Backlash Against Google Wave – Google rocks the boat.

Microsoft’s Big Bing Theory – “But It’s Not Google”

Daatum.com – Crowdsourcing Structured Data

Africansignals Wiki – African Signals is a site dedicated to finding out and showing local rates for mobile phone and internet connections around Africa

MyBroadband.co.za – Broadband Internet and Computer news website focusing on ADSL, 3G, HSDPA, iBurst, MyWireless, Gaming, Cellphone, Hardware and Software.

Appfricast 11 – Natalie’s First Day

j.gosier@appfirca.org (Appfrica.com) — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:15:00 +0000

Natalie’s First Day. Appfricast has a new co-host and her name is Natalie Kimbugwe! Natalie will be joining us week-after-week to discuss the latest in African IT news and current events. As the female founder of a start-up here in Kampala, she offers unique insight into the IT industry, policy making and….Shaggy?!

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Links from the Show

Orange Telecom – Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators.
Youth Action Fund – The purpose of the Youth Action Fund is to identify, inspire, and support small groups of dedicated young people who can mobilize and influence large numbers of their peers to promote open society ideals.