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• TED 2010 Nairobi Screening

  Posted: February 18, 2010, 9:09 pm by Will

  Last Saturday (13th February), the last day of this years TED, for the first time ever, local youths in Kenya (some from the Kibera slums) were entreated to the live TED experience via webstream.The event was held in the building where the Acumen Fund is based in the parking lot (cool huh!) The original venue [...]

• Hard Talk on Entrepreneurship

  Posted: February 15, 2010, 9:11 pm by Will

  Hard Talk on Entrepreneurship

• TED 2010 Comes to Kibera

  Posted: February 12, 2010, 9:42 pm by Will

  That would be quite an amazing thing now wouldn’t it! TED being held in the largest slum in Africa. Well, Suraj Sudhakar, the guy who brought us TEDxKibera in 2009 is at it again and this time he wants to bring TED 2010 live to Kibera and the youth of Kibera [Read the full story] [...]

• Interview with GTBank on their Use of Social Media

  Posted: February 11, 2010, 5:29 pm by Will

  From Afrinnovator.com, an interview with GTBank on their use of social media… A few weeks ago Afrinnovator featured GTBank, the Nigerian bank that is pushing it’s use of New/Social Media as a way of building it’s brand and connecting with it’s clients (or in this case audience). GTBank are clearly trend-setters for corporations in Africa. We [...]

• Your Free Pass to Mobile Web EA

  Posted: February 2, 2010, 10:13 pm by Will

  … Well, at not exactly free to attend the event Afrinnovator.com will live blog the event on both days. So stay tuned to the website and keep a close eye on the Twitter account for a minute by minute account of what’s happening on the ground at the event.

• Writing

  Posted: February 1, 2010, 8:46 pm by Will

  If you follow this blog you may have noticed the frequency of posts has not been so high in recent times. I have been focusing a lot of my writing on Afrinnovator.com one of my startups. Afrinnovator.com focuses on highlighting tech, innovation and startups in Africa. You will find a lot of information about what’s [...]

• Success is a Two Way Street

  Posted: January 26, 2010, 12:46 pm by Will

  Success is a Two Way Street

• Philosophy + Blogging = ?

  Posted: January 25, 2010, 10:33 pm by Will

  Philosophy + Blogging = ?

• Will’s Wacky Introduction to New/Social Media/Networking – in plain English , or Not

  Posted: January 22, 2010, 10:14 pm by Will

  Act 1, Scene 1 Hey, I just came from this conference where every one was talking about social networking, and social media, and new media… What does this all stuff mean? Well, according to Wikipedia: Social media (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Media) is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. [...]

• Ushahidi is Haiti’s 9-1-1

  Posted: January 22, 2010, 10:50 am by Will

  From literally just after the tragic earth quake that hit Haiti, the Ushahidi team hit the ground running; launching haiti.ushahidi.com an instance of ushahidi dedicated to tracking the crisis situation. Since then, the activity on the instance has grown tremendously. The Ushahidi team has even set up a Situation Room at the Fletcher School to [...]

• The H-Factor: Innovating by Following your Hunch

  Posted: January 19, 2010, 11:44 am by Will

  Someone once said that good things happen over time, but truly great things happen all at once (I think it was from some movie). Anyway, the point is that sometimes, in the mind of an innovator or creator of any kind – an artist, sculptor, poet, software engineer or whatever other creative work you can [...]

• Afrinnovator.com is Back!

  Posted: January 4, 2010, 11:56 am by Will

  A few months ago I partnered with a friend of mine to breathe some new life into an ‘experiment’ that I did slightly over a year ago that I called Afrinnovator. The idea at the time was pretty simple – A Google Maps mashup of sorts. Allow startups and innovators in Africa to put themselves [...]

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