I came across these two excellent African tech sites – Appfrica & iHub – and they’ve got me thinking; we instinctively look to India and other South-Asian countries for lessons and examples in IT. However, I suspect there is much to learn from the (East & West?) African experience. India is so overwhelmingly established in its position as a technology hub and has access to such vast human and financial resources that I think certain experiences in Sri Lanka may be more analagous to the African situation. I’m thinking particularly in terms of start-ups where I feel the access to resources and infra-structure is really not comparable to the current Indian experience.

A few more links I need to explore:

http://www.techmasai.com/2009/09/the-complete-list-of-the-top-african-technology-startups-of-2009/

http://www.vc4africa.com/

http://www.cp-africa.com/category/technology/

All Tags || HotelChatter.

The site’s quite good in terms of content and design but the manner in which stories have been tagged illustrates a typical problem with this feature. There are so many tags, without an attempt to consolidate them into common themes, that the page that displays them is virtually unusable.

Ubuntu’s Circle of Friends Gets Smaller – Brand New.

The stats given in that post about the Ubuntu branding reboot (from a design perspective)  amused me:

58% of your are using a Macintosh Operating System, 39% are on Windows, 1.5% are logged as using the iPhone OS, and, finally, as the subject of today’s post, 0.65% of you are reading this from a Linux Operating System.

Even if I wasn’t familiar with the blog, I’d know it was catering to a predominately marketing audience!