Where: Global Society Content Hub at Big Fuel Headquarters
40 W. 23rd Street
New York City , 10010

When: Monday, February 13 at 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Who: Chief Boima Writer / DJ / Producer, Kathleen Bomani Event Manager,Africa Gathering,Yolanda Sangweni Senior Editor Essence,Ngozi Odita Founder / Creative Director Society HAE .

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Eight local technology start-ups have been offered a unique opportunity to pitch their business ideas to delegates, potential investors and media at this year’s Tech4Africa conference, taking place at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg on 27 and 28 October.There are :
10Layer: the most feature-complete, competent and customisable open source content management system for serious publishers and media houses.

Feedback Rocket: which offers an innovative online solution to obtain useful, insightful and honest feedback.

iSign.pro: that allows users to get legally-binding contracts signed in minutes – legally, cheaper, greener and stored forever, with automatic reminders before renewal/expiry.

Lessfuss: is an affordable South African personal assistant service that helps you save time and get things done for as little as R30/task.

Mobiflock: is a product range that consists of a parental control service, a personal smartphone tracker, and a corporate smartphone manager.

Plot my Ride: is a social networking service for the cycling community that offers an easy and real-time means of capturing, displaying, saving and sharing a cyclist’s riding activity.

Real Time Wine: captures the supermarket wine-buying audience and empowers them to discover, review, engage with and buy wine using smartphone apps, game mechanics & barcode scanning.

SnapBill: is an automated billing system that allows users to easily sell their services online.

“We are very passionate about the African market and encouraged by the innovations emerging from the continent, so it’s a natural fit for us to partner with Tech4Africa to present this stage for innovators to showcase their products,” says Brett Loubser, B2C Apps Development Lead at Samsung. “We intend using this partnership to help create a wider network of local developers, reward African innovation in the mobile tech and app space and promote the Samsung Apps Store as an alternative channel for smartphone developers.

“A key outcome of our participation as the Ignite partner is to engage South African developers and therefore we have made available a number of discounted tickets to facilitate their involvement at this year’s conference.”

The Samsung Ignite participants will each be afforded five minutes to showcase their products in the main auditorium at the end of the first day of the conference. A panel of judges has been gathered to adjudicate and the winning startup will be announced on the second day of the event, and be given the opportunity to present their start-up to the entire Tech4Africa audience. The winner will also receive the latest Samsung mobile devices and valuable exposure and profiling through the Tech4Africa website. More details are available at http://www.tech4africa.com.

The website :

10Layer - www.10layer.com

Feedback Rocket - www.feedbackrocket.com/

iSign.pro - https://isign.pro/

Lessfuss – http://lessfuss.co.za/

Mobiflock - www.mobiflock.com/

Plot my Ride - www.plotmyride.com

Real Time Wine - www.realtimewine.co.za/

SnapBill - www.snapbill.com

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What: Through a series of practical workshops hosted by some of the world’s leading publishing experts, attendees will learn how to use the latest technologies and techniques to maximize their publishing potential. The purpose of the event it to celebrate the best in blogging and media creation as well as to exchange publishing best practices.

Tickets to attend the event go on sale today for $50 and entries to the Media Awards are $45.

Where: San Francisco,California,USA

When: February 25th 2012

Who:Bloggers,publishers,marketers,brands

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. From September 7th to next September 10th at the University of the Atlantic of Abidjan
(Cocody 2-plateaux), will be held the first edition of Summer E-School, the summer school to the practices of the Web.

And for this first, the organizers chose to gather the participants around the topic: “In the world of Open Source”. Objective: “to make  the discovery of  instruments on line which are  free and easy to take over and which could meet the needs for the participants”.

It is thus approximately a little more than 200 people who are expected these days. Journalists, associations, companies, private individuals, artists, geek, simple user of Internet etc. “For each environment  he Internet reserves a panoply of instruments, simple, light and useful for an effectiveness in their usual actions”. It is good that those which do not know them discover them, and which those which are well aware of applications and other “free gadgets on line”, are informed of the evolutions which are done on the matter.

What will be  the programme of these 4 days of Summer E-School ?Practical conferences and workshops on quite precise sets of themes. For example, how to create its radio operator Web or his webtv with simple and free tools, “to know and control the applications offered by google” etc…  A workshop to learn how to make drawings (of press) and another workshop to learn how to make photograph.

Well-known speakers of the Web of Ivory Coast will entertain them on diverse topics . For example “freedom of expression on line”, “Web 2.0 and solidarity”, “to understand open source” etc (see the detailed program).

the hashtag (of the event) on twitter is #seschool,the event is also on Facebook

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-Africa accounted for 10% of the world’s mobile subscriptions at the end of 2010
-There will be almost 360 million users of mobile money services on the continent (africa) by 2014
-36.9% of the African Internet traffic is directly from Nigeria
-CISCO sees in Africa 900 Million potential clients and a Market worth $978 Million USD
.Africa has 110 Million internet subscribers today, Cisco’s Vision is to enable 200 Million by 2013
-Safaricom using Health Presence to do remote diagnosis by doctors. Improves access to health care.
-CISCO has allocated $2 million for grassroots projects. They prefer dealing directly with communities

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Other Start Up Week Ends
Casablanca
Alger

Marrakesh

Tunis
Cairo

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Aggregate RSS/Atom news
Show news as list or on a map
Search news
Republish news by bundling articles into channels
Configurable location tagging
Configurable maps

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Atrium=Apache +Mysql+ PHP +Drupal

Open Atrium: Bringing Your Team Together from Phase2 Technology on Vimeo.

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Nokia, the global mobile phone maker and solutions provider, sees mobile internet and applications as next growth frontier for Sub-Saharan Africa that will help transform the continent’s socio-economic growth.New figures indicate that Africa is recovering strongly from the global recession with economic growth, a factor that may help drive penetration of mobile connectivity to 69 percent by 2014, compared to 49 percent in 2009.

Samsung will be focusing on Africa’s top 10 economies, which together generate 79 percent of the continents wealth and house almost 47 percent of the population.[Samsung ]

ForgetMeNot Africa introduces to teh African telecom market the first two-way SMS facebook service available on any basic mobile phone.The company ’s Message Optimiser technology converts Facebook action and Facebook chat messages into SMS format enabling millions of cellphone subscribers accross the continent to access Facebook.

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