“It Becomes Public” is a round robin video discussion on these and other issues, generated from a single evening’s workshop facilitated by KS12 at the British Council Berlin. The workshop was held during Social Media Week Berlin 2011.

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-Yakouba Konaté (curator of the Dakar Biennial) at Primo Marella Gallery, is putting together “an important group show focused on contemporary art from Africa”. Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Soly Cissé (Senegal), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon), Moridja Kitenge Banza (Republic of Congo), Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo (D.R.C.), Jöel Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar), and Peter Eastmann, Cameron Platter, Stuart Bird, and Athi Patra Ruga of South Africa are included.

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The total value of mobile money transfers in Africa will exceed US$200 billion in 2015.[ Source ]

Africa’s total stock market capitalization now exceeds $1 trillion [ Omegascorpi]

The Angolan Government will build from next October six multimedia libraries (computerized libraries and multimedia) in six provinces, in an initial investment estimated at USD 48 million. [ Source ]

A building materials and construction company, Kon-X Ltd., has introduced a new form of project finance to aid in reducing the high cost of building materials in Nigeria [ Source ]

The African Development Bank (ADB) has said it has received the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s request for a sum of $50 million to finance its proposed Bus Rapid Mass Transit (BRT). [ Source ]

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Google has announced their $1,25 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.[source :unknown]

G Nigeria 2011 [source ]

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following the opening of  full grown tech labs , Ihub,Limbelabs,Hivelabs,BantalabsNailabs in Africa’s major tech hubs, Abidjan could not remain isolated from the pack and not join this movement that is more perceptible in Accra,Nairobi,Johannesburg,Lagos,THE SETTING UP OF AN AFRICAN TECH CULTURE and ECOSYSTEM.

About the Coworking Space

AMN offices will be more than theirs, they will be  opening up to the local web & creative workforce by enabling a space where independant workers from these two industries could come and work,host potentiel clients/partners/investors,collaborate,isolate themselves from noise & dust from the city.

Profile of the members of the Coworking space:

Writers

Web Journalists

Bloggers

Graphic Designers

Photographs

Videographs

3D designers

Illustrators

International Consultants

Watch below a video tour of the space

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-Opera village near Ouagadougou worth 2 million Euros will be built by architect extraordinaire Francis Kere. [ Source]

-3 million years of Kenyan history to be distributed online and accessed from mobile phones.[Source ]

-The music and ideas of Oumou Sangaré [Source ]

-650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda.[Source]

-Zain announced a partnership with IBM to roll out a $1.5 billion infrastructure to be based in Kenya which would support among many other things a Music(think iTunes) and App store (Thin Ovi). [source]

–Ciment institute to be established in Nigeria.[Source]

-Sudan has unveiled plans to redesign a number of its cities into the shape of animals. The southern capital of Juba – reportedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, is to be relocated and restructured into the shape of a rhinoceros. [Source]

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Their solution can be opening up increased product sales coupled with additional benefits of mobile payment capabilities, transaction fees revenue, loyalty programs benefits, and more all facilitated by inexpensve and affordable mobile phones

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-A number of leading broadcasters and content suppliers involved in sub-Saharan Africa have come together to form Africa Media Rights Watch. [ Source ]

-The World Cup of filmmaking’the first Cinemasports international filmmaking competition to be held in Africa will take place on 18 September in Tshwane, South Africa. Harnessing a synergy between digital video, Internet, and mobile technology, Cinemasports is at the forefront of the changing media landscape. [Source ]

-IBM has announced the opening of a full subsidiary office in Accra, Ghana. The new office will enable IBM to deliver high-value solutions and services to meet the growing needs of clients in Ghana. [Source ]

-Nigeria mobile operator, Zain has introduced free SMS (Short Message Service), lowered tariff for calls made to numbers within (On-Net calls) and out of the networks (off-Net calls), and loads of other benefits designed to give its customers more value.[Source]

-Kenya prepares the way for a technology-based future. [Source ]

-Apple’s iPad could go on sale in SA within a matter of weeks [Source ]

-Global investors’ interest in acquiring vast swathes of land for commercial agriculture in Africa intensifies [Source]

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Nigeria bans sale of unregistered Sim Cards [Story]

Zain Kenya, now owned by Bharti Airtel, is set to roll out 3G services in Kenya after it was granted a vlicence by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). [Story]

TedXAbuja & TedXVictoriaIsland [Story]

Jobberman has just announced the release of their mobile version which allows jobseekers to get real-time information about the latest jobs in town right from their mobile phones. [Story]

Adlevo Capital announced its first closing of a $52 million capital commitment focused on technology-enabled businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Nigeria and South Africa. [Story]

Gmail is available in Swahili and Amharic, adapting to over 100 million speakers located in East and Central Africa, and in the Diaspora.[Story]

Africa’s collective GDP, at $1.6 trillion in 2008, is now roughly equal to Brazil’s or Russia’s. [Story]

Zoopy the South African social media platform has created a new iPhone application. [Story]

New regional air carrier, doing what Africa needswhich is point-to-point services.[Story]

Cresta Marakanelo, Botswana’s largest hotel operator, is on track for a June 17 listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) judging by enthusiastic public response to the sale of 62,9 million shares in the company by Botswana Development Corporation (BDC).[Story]

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