the digital doorway project
June 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

Larry Stillman, an Australian researcher and blogger emailed me about the South African-based Digital Doorway Project:
June 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

Larry Stillman, an Australian researcher and blogger emailed me about the South African-based Digital Doorway Project:
February 26, 2009 1 Comment

Africa is a Country featured on WordPress’s “Growing Blogs” list.
* The picture has nothing to do with it. It’s my daughter enjoying a Cirque du Soleil show.
February 23, 2009 2 Comments
Nigeria. The other news is that Mauritius and Seychelles exhibit the highest internet penetration rates.
Meanwhile, in a stroke of genius, that country’s techies have launched their own version of twitter, NaijaPulse (twitter is limited to the US, Canada and India).
Via: White African, and Global Advances.
UPDATE: See also Startups Nigeria.
February 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
This is actually a useful story about the use of satellite technology to bridge the digital divide — to bring internet to rural Kenya. The reporter or a sub-editor at The New York Times had to lose it though by coming up with line (above).
Link.
March 30, 2008 Leave a Comment

It’s like when someone you know finally signs up for a Facebook profile.
Here.
(They compete for my loyalty with Abdullah Ibrahim).
March 20, 2008 Leave a Comment

The BLK JKS played somewhere in New York City last night (did the New Museum have to use the phrase ‘ tribal rhythms’ though?) I only get back into the city this weekend, so missed it. There must be other gigs, right?
* I stole that line from a Cape Town DJ. ha, ha.
February 23, 2008 1 Comment
South Africa’s 1996 Constitution outlaws anti-gay discrimination, new laws legalized gay marriage in December 2006, one of the judges on the country Supreme Court of Appeal is an openly gay man, and the country’s leading AIDS campaigner married his partner last month (AIDS, incidentally, largely affects heterosexuals in South Africa). Of course South Africa is not perfect, but the same kind of story can’t be written about most other African countries. (Although he later apologized, two years ago Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa’s ruling party — and the front runner to be the country’s third democratically elected President since the end of its racial dictatorship in 1994 — publicly criticized gay marriage and told a crowd at a political rally that ‘When I was growing up, a homosexual would not have stood in front of me. I would knock him out.’) So what happens elsewhere. Here’s a story about gay people elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East do: they go forced underground and now it seems, if they have access, onto the internet. The full story in the Boston Globe.