Barcamp Nairobi and the next hubs of innovation

Last weekend, the folks from AfriGadget, Ushahidi, and a bunch of others helped organize “Barcamp Nairobi” a (non) conference meet-up that brought together programmers, social activists, mobile phone enthusiasts and technologists to get to know one another and share ideas.
The topics ranged from ICT and rural energy (as presented by LightingupKenya.org) to women bloggers to [...]

OLPC, Microsoft, Opensource and customer questions

There is a really interesting conversation that started last week at outsourcing expert Steve Hamm’s blog Bangalore Tigers at BusinessWeek. The conversation is about the One Laptop Per Child program founder’s decision to agree to ship units with a version of Microsoft’s XP operating system rather than the open-source, Linux based system.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/06/olpc_the_open-s.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_bangaloretigers
For some, this is [...]