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Twitter-MTN Partnership & Innovation in Cameroon

{ Posted on Dec 07 2010 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Twitter and MTN Cameroon have announced a partnership that enables MTN subscribers in Cameroon to send and receive tweets from their mobile phones using SMS. Users access the service by texting "START" to 8711 on MTN's network. Standard messaging rates ...Read More »

Can An African Tech Entrepreneur Change the World?

{ Posted on May 15 2010 by Bill Zimmerman }
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I wrapped up a month of travel last week, including a visit to Washington DC to attend Africa Gathering, a conference highlighting innovation and entrepreneurship focused on the continent, to share my experience of operating a startup incubator in Cameroon. ...Read More »

Why Open Collaboration Spaces like the *iHub_ Matter

{ Posted on Mar 14 2010 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Last week I attended the much anticipated iHub Nairobi launch, as well as participated in a pre-launch gathering of African tech hub pioneers (more on the latter in a follow-up post). A number of bloggers in Kenya and elsewhere ...Read More »

Live Event – BarCamp Cameroon

{ Posted on Nov 06 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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We're counting down the final hours to Cameroon's first BarCamp! The event is sold out with more than 200 attendees registered. If you're unable to attend in person, don't worry. We'll live blog the presentations here and on the ...Read More »

Mapping Africa’s Bush Fires

{ Posted on Sep 12 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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From NASA's Earth Observatory website: Season after season, year after year, people set fire to African landscapes to create and maintain farmland and grazing areas. People use fire to keep less desirable plants from invading crop or rangeland, to drive grazing ...Read More »
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