Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
PIVOT25, East Africa’s First Mobile Developer Conference
PIVOT25 - Nairobi, Kenya. 14 - 15th June, 2011
PIVOT25 is East Africa’s first mobile developer challenge and conference. Happening on the 14 & 15th of June, 2011 the event enjoys the support of Nokia, the World Bank’s infoDev, Google, DEMO and Equity Bank among others. The winner of the challenge will get an opportunity to pitch at DEMO in September 2011. See the press release here.
TweetWorkshop: Building a Business on Mobile Apps.
Semacraft Consulting invites you to register for a workshop on Building a Business on Mobile Apps to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
The workshop is based on research and insights gathered by the Semacraft team on the African market and will equip participants with the information they need to: Read the rest of this entry »
TweetApps for Africa: 3 Reasons To Focus on Mobile
MXit's Android App
The iTunes App store has had phenomenal success as a content distribution platform starting with music and then moving into magazines, books and software applications. There are currently more than 300,000 apps on offer on the App store and numerous stories of developers who went on to make millions of dollars from publishing the apps to the store. The App store may have been solely responsible for spawning a whole new sub-sector for application development that wasn’t taken very seriously until then. Read the rest of this entry »
TweetAfrica: Opportunity Awaits
I looked up a Nairobi-based digital strategist Mark Kaigwa last month, smart and insightful, he’s become a voice to listen to on East African social media and internet marketing affairs. Mobile quickly became part of the conversation since internet penetration is still relatively low. In fact, telecommunication companies across the continent have identified data subscriptions as the next frontier for growth as voice revenues decline due to increased competition and regulatory intervention.
TweetRebooting Africa and the Semacraft Team
We thought it was about time that we took a moment to share what has been happening here at Semacraft. Its been an exhilarating year and we’ve only reached the middle of March.
First, Semacraft Consulting Group was invited to write a series on Africa, with a particular focus on the contemporary tech sector by our good friend, Dirk Knemeyer of Involution Studios, Boston. We’ve published four articles already and here they are in order:
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