In South Africa, last week, I held multiple press conferences.I was in three South African national TVs and appeared on nearly all the major tech media, meneburn, ITnewsAfric, etc. BBC interviewed me on the last day of the program; enjoy the podcast.
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Entrepreneurs and developers from all over Africa and beyond are meeting at the Tech4Africa conference which ends this Friday in Johannesburg.
The two-day event centres on mobile, web and emerging technologies with the goal of bringing a global perspective to the African context and finding African solutions for African problems.
The issues being discussed include applications for Web 2.0, cloud computing, African success stories and the funding landscape on the continent.
The BBC’s Bola Mosuro, from our Network Africa programme, spoke to two of the participants, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, from Nigeria, founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology, and Gustav Praekelt, from South Africa, whose medical appointment reminder system, TxtAlert, won the 2011 Tech4Africa Innovation Award.
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Awesome comments by Dr. Ndubuisi, the most significant to me were:
“THE ERRA OF BELIEVING THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS IS OVER!”
That to me was one of the most important statements, second only to when he said…
“the money is not really the problem, what i’m really looking out for is for people to come up with inovative ideas!”
@James: you share my feeling about the short interview. I was touched in the 2nd one because here in Lagos we all complain no money, but listening to him saying to the world that Africa SMEs have no money issue, but ideas, is fresh. It was similar to what Brian, another contributor, was saying that people must have business models. Ideas first and then money will come.
http://tekedia.com/27460/business-model-part-4-4-connecting-dots/
why are you no more writing? You used to write for Tekedia?