WhiteAfrican

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Last activity: 26.07.2018

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Where Africa and technology collide... Co-founder of

@GridlessCompute,

@iHub Nairobi,

@BRCKnet, and

@Ushahidi. Instagram:

@White_African

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Location

Kenya, Nairobi

Employees

11-50

Mentions in press and media 20

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Jun 5, 2018	Why Is Hardware Hard In Nigeria?	Every product you use most likely took years (or at least months) of design, prototyping and iteration before it was ready for you to purchase. That’s just the nature of the hardware business. To achieve a final product, a lot of creativity...
Sep 15, 2015	Inside the iHub, Kenya’s widely acclaimed “Tech Headquarters”	Share this article: This article is over 4 years old Unofficially known as the ‘Kenyan tech headquarters’, the Innovation hub — abbreviated as iHub — has been in existence for more than 5 years now. This title is well befitting as it hosts ...
Feb 19, 2015	The Hype and Hustle of African Tech Startups	Share this article: Hardly a day goes by without an African tech startup being featured in the mainstream media. CNN regularly updates its special report on the topic; The Guardian covers local debates surrounding emerging ecosystems; The F...
Aug 6, 2012	Kenyan WordPress Plugin Attracts International Attention	been downloaded over 20,000 times since its launch eighteen months ago, with founder Kelvin Jayanoris delighted with the progress of the plugin. DukaPress was designed specifically as a WordPress e-commerce plugin in August 2010 after its d...
Jul 23, 2012	The 10 Voices Of Africa’s Tech Revolution	Technology is the fastest growing sector in many African countries, and a revolution is underway that could transform the continent. Africans are taking to social media in ever greater numbers, with some prominent figures using the likes of...
Jun 9, 2012	The Savannah Fund brings Silicon Valley to East Africa	Nerdwork on the balcony of iHub. Image from the Savannah Fund reader comments 12 with 9 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The last several years have seen a blossoming of tech hubs and...
Jun 8, 2012	East African startup accelerator gets international attention	East Africa has a new tech startup accelerator fund and it’s getting international attention. The Savannah Fund is a partnership between Mbwana Alliy, Paul Bragiel and iHub founder Erik Hersman and is “focused on finding and investing in E...
Jun 8, 2012	East African startup accelerator gets international attention	East Africa has a new tech startup accelerator fund and it’s getting international attention. The Savannah Fund is a partnership between Mbwana Alliy, Paul Bragiel and iHub founder Erik Hersman and is “focused on finding and investing in Ea...
May 24, 2012	Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa	reader comments 34 with 26 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit "Outside of South Africa, there is little to no capacity for cloud computing on the continent," wrote Erik Hersma...
Jan 6, 2012	Why 2012 could be the year of the African startup	The past few years have been about building an infrastructure that improves the chances of the technology startups in Africa to succeed. Seeing this buildout in action in 2011 was exciting, but it should be recognised for what it really was...
Jan 6, 2012	Why 2012 could be the year of the African startup	The past few years have been about building an infrastructure that improves the chances of the technology startups in Africa to succeed. Seeing this buildout in action in 2011 was exciting, but it should be recognised for what it really was...
Sep 7, 2011	Nairobi Weekend: New Startups in East Africa	Driving from Nairobi Airport into Kenya’s capital of Nairobi the evening of my arrival left me with this image: A four-lane highway that ends in a big pile of metal, street vendors and thousands of people sharing the street with all the oth...
Jul 8, 2011	Kenya Launches Sub-Saharan Africa’s First National Open Data Initiative	Yesterday, Kenya became the first Sub-Saharan African nation to institute a national open data program. “The Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) goes live this morning,” White African wrote yesterday, “in a big event that includes President K...
Feb 10, 2011	Afrilabs: Providing a Path for Africa’s Technology Entrepreneurs	Africa has a burgeoning technology community – and now has as a formalized collaboration among the continent’s tech incubators called Afrilabs. The goal of this network organization is to associate and connect the African technology communi...
Oct 17, 2008	MobileActive08: Using Mobile Web for Social Action	MobileActive08, a conference about using mobile technology for social action, was held this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference was a 3 day event and covered topics such as: mobile internet usage by low income youth, how mobi...
Oct 2, 2008	Social Media in Africa, Part 1	Contrary to popular belief, Africa is not completely absent from the Internet. In fact, the continent at large is undergoing a connectivity revolution unlike anything it has ever seen. Mobile phones in particular are propagating at an incre...
Mar 2, 2008	Kevin Rose Can't Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can't Wait To Speak With a Human	On Friday, I moderated a fun panel at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami (see photo above). The basic premise was to try to come up with a compelling web app in 40 minutes. There were a lot of good ideas, but the best ones centered ...
Jan 15, 2008	Kenyan tech bloggers launch crisis-report site	A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory Okolloh calling for a web application to track incidents of violence and areas of need during the post-election turmoil in Kenya. Within a ...
Nov 22, 2007	Picturing Web 2.0 in Africa	While it’s a holiday arguably celebrating imperialism here in the US, there’s a whole world online that’s still busy at work. RWW has covered the top Web 2.0 sites in a wide variety of countries, but the continent of Africa has not been cov...

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning WhiteAfrican, among them “Why Is Hardware Hard In Nigeria?” (Jun 5, 2018) and “Inside the iHub, Kenya’s widely acclaimed “Tech Headquarters”” (Sep 15, 2015).

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Yes, WhiteAfrican is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 26, 2018.