African ingenuity blogwatch
Concept Advisory Services has a few words about the IPO of the Co-operative Bank of Kenya.
Emeka Okafor talks about African Bubbles.
Check out this Tongolese bottle opener.
$4 bln railway to link Burundi with neighbours.
White African on Web and Mobile Tech Used in Election Monitoring
With the big US election cycle culminating in tomorrow’s election day there has been a lot of talk about monitoring of elections. Usually I see this type of debate taking place in other parts of the world – like Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria. However, this time it’s at home, and while all the focus of the world is here, it makes an interesting time and case-study for the use of technology in monitoring of everything from election fraud, to fairness and accessibility.
This new generation of read/write technology using the web and mobile phones creates a situation where ordinary citizen have both awareness and opportunity to take part in an way that wasn’t possible in such great numbers only a few decades ago….