This is perhaps one of those ideas that must be multiplied across Africa. The youngsters in Smallholders Foundation are doing incredible job of improving farm literacy in Imo State, Nigeria.   We are reaching rural poor farmer listeners living in remote communities of Imo State, Nigeria with appropriate and sustainable agricultural development information in Igbo Language through The Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio. This radio designs and presents broadcast programs which enables farmers acquire agricultural and [...]

How is our government getting prepared for potential internet attacks on our nation’s infrastructure? The new age is not a war of machetes  and guns, but bits and bytes. How are we securing our oil installations from Stuxnet? Nigeria must act and lead and not be a laughing stock in the league of nations.   As the nation sees continuous internet penetration, threats will come. Now is the time to prepare and develop the necessary [...]

Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, an European body has ruled.   A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the technologies have “potentially harmful” effects on humans, and concluded that immediate action was required to protect children.   In a report, the committee said it was crucial to avoid repeating the mistakes made when public health officials were slow to [...]

  This is very interesting – moving the African storytelling to the mobile ecosystem where more people can get connected in this age. It is about mentoring and empowering. Story Spaces is just doing that. Working in partnership with Kuyu Project, they complement Ushahidi. They hope to inspire and motivate people to become better citizens.   StorySpaces can be helpful for crisis response as a crisis moves beyond immediate response, and looks at long-term recovery. [...]

Enormous economic challenges in the 21st century have brought tremendous needs to utilize available limited resources in the most efficient and effective ways. The impacts of globalization, currency devaluation, inflation, environmental concerns as well as massive natural disasters are changing governance at all levels.   Technological advances have enabled new ways of deploying services in timely and cost effective means. It has become very apparent that governance must be very strategic and the capacity to [...]

To get the Android market share, we went back to the latest InMobi data, March 2011. Android is very strong and has already toppled iPhone OS. Note the conditions of this data as noted below:   Data in this report are sourced from our global mobile advertising network which served 31.9 billion impressions in March 2011. With 114 countries receiving over 10 million impressions in March 2011, we are able to claim one of the [...]

We have received many inquiries from people asking how they can submit PAID apps in the apps store. The simply fact is that counting as we noted before will not do the job. There are people that will click an app that will not finally download it. That was why we just took out the counter to avoid false impression.   What we want all developers for PAID apps is to map activation of their [...]

Daily, we have become accustomed to reading about the many challenges America faces as a nation. It has unemployment problems, runaway federal deficit, real estate depression, health care crises and senior citizens that live longer. Yes, many see people living longer as a problem because we still operate industrial age economics with its archaic retirement system for a knowledge century.   Accordingly, when we look at what it will take to care for retirees over [...]

Late yesterday, we spoke with the the Lead Technical  Instructor (Yemi) of the MIT Students planned programme in University of Ibadan under this initiative, Africa Information Technology Initiative (AITI). As reported yesterday, these students are coming to University of Ibadan to train students on mobility computing. Fasmicro has confirmed to attend this program. It will deliver lecture topics to UI students on entrepreneurship, network with them, judge business competition and mentor them after the program [...]

In April, we reported about the Nigerian startup, Gistcaster, that enables us to gist and talk – almost about anything. Now, the startup has revamped its website. It is better, engaging and pretty a good place to just gist.   In a post by the team, about a setback in the site, they concluded simply: “Thanks for all the support, so let’s continue Gisting!”. Oh yes, that is what we need to do.   The [...]