June 20th, 2008 | by Imnakoya | published in Business and Entrepreneurship, Governance, ICT, Rwanda
In its Vision 2020 plan, the Government of Rwanda aims to transform the country from a largely agriculture-based economy to a knowledge and information based economy, in an effort to reach middle income status by 2020. The Government has emphasized its intention to use investment in ICT as the key driver for this transition and […]
January 10th, 2008 | by Imnakoya | published in Advocacy, Africa, ICT, Media, Nigeria, Technology
Online conversations on the botched Kenyan elections have been raging for days since violence erupted after voting. ChatterBox, the algorithmic aggregator on AfricanLoft has been helpful (at least to me) in monitoring the “chatter” on post-election violence. Today’s update at 5:45AM lists as #1 the discussions on “Ushahidi”, the web tool created to record the […]
June 21st, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Blogosphere, Media, Web 2.0
Yes, AfricanLoft TV - “ALTV†for short - is up!
Now you can browse and watch some headline videos on sports, entertainment and world news via your browser - it’s that easy!
Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Technorati Tags: AfricanLoft
June 12th, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Africa, Blogosphere, ICT, Media, Nigeria, Web 2.0
In May, I mused if the Nigerian blogosphere was dying. This piece is a continuation of that conversation, and has some readers and those who commented to that post may have discerned, the Nigerian blogosphere isn’t dying, and doesn’t appear so any time soon.
This conclusion is based on several recent developments in the Nigerian […]
May 23rd, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Business and Entrepreneurship, Media, Web 2.0
As a blogger and budding web entrepreneur, this is one story I can’t overlook: a medical doctor that made some $300 million doing nothing but selling and manipulating domain names. How possible?
According to CNN Money:
“The man at the top of this little-known hierarchy is Kevin Ham — one of a handful of major-league “domainers” in […]
