Waterhole — News & Posts
Perspectives on building and backing technology companies across Africa.
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12 predictions for Africa Tech Scene in 2012
It has been a banner year for the Africa technology scene as the world begins to turn to the continent – the Economist Africa…
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Let’s put a smartphone into a feature phone and beat Moore’s Law
What percentage of mobile phone users in Africa are smartphones?- A common question that comes up here in Silicon Valley to try belittle the…
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Kenya Julisha ICT report: Invest in new skills. It’s called Human Capital
Earlier this week, the Kenya ICT board released some interesting statistics in the Julisha Report on the Kenya ICT ecosystem. I love these sorts…
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Visa gets serious: Let the Africa Mobile Payment Wars Begin
A student at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania was asked by a former lead engineer at paypal during a mentoring session…
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How not to launch a Data.gov
I woke up this morning at 4am US West Coast time because I went to bed very early in anticipation of some early morning…
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The Africa Tech Parks & Cities Arms Race- Is it worth it?
One of the most debated topics in IT innovation industrial policy is the place of tech parks and cities catalysed by African Government’s role…
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Genomics Research in Africa – Improving Health by applying cloud computing
I talked about the need for more market research. Lets get more serious. How about more genomics reasearch? Sounds too cutting edge? No. Its…
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What counts? Need for more Data Transparency & Africa Tech Market Research
A few months ago, I did some due diligence on a potential innovative healthcare venture in East Africa. As part of this I sourced…