Kampala-The African Centre for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention has been launched in Naguru, a Kampala suburb. The centre, set up by the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI), in conjunction with the International Association of Cyber Crime Prevention (AILCC), is based in France. The centre [...]

An initiative to give everyone a chance to say what they love about Lagos has been launched using a Facebook application and offers prizes to the most liked photos. The initiative called, TaG LaGos allows participants to share interesting photos and their experiences with other people on Governor Babatunde Fashola’s fan page on Facebook. How [...]

All wordpress enthusiasts would agree that Woothemes by far is one of the best premium theme providers for wordpress. Woothemes makes over $2 million a year selling WordPress themes. Read a Mixergy interview with the South African co-founder, Adriaan Adii Pienaar below. Interview Andrew: This interview is sponsored by WuFoo, which makes embeddable forms and [...]

3 videos, all inspiring. She talks about Ushahidi, Mzalendo and blogging. You can read Ory Okolloh’s bio below this post. CNN’s David MacKenzie reports… 1. IT activist Ory Okolloh talks about the success of her Ushahidi software which has been used in several disasters across the world… 2. About how she took on Kenya’ politicians… [...]

Check out Joozi.com, an African open source development community. Though the site is relatively new, Joozi.com fills the growing need in the African software developer space for an active open source community for idea sharing and networking. Joozi.com’s description: Joozi.com is a forum where software developers come together to share ideas, articles, questions and tips [...]

Social Media seems to be powering just about everything on the web. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, RSS, Mashups, etc are the engines that run things on the web. They seem to be telling us: “No matter what you do, you’ll need us”. Yeah, the conversation on today’s web is different. It is social. It is vibrant. [...]

The African Union (AU) recently issued a press release  on the need to have  dotafrica domain names registered for web sites on the continent.(Read the entire Press Release below this article). According to the AU, DotAfrica is the internet name space for the continent which would be applied for in the next round of new [...]

A report from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has revealed that 43.9 million Nigerians have access to the internet. According to the Vanguard, Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion, an internet marketing firm based in Ikoyi said: “This is the latest stats from the International Telecommunication Union, ITU and this makes Nigeria the largest [...]

Cashenvoy can be described as Nigeria’s Paypal. The service allows you to send and receive money as well as make payments to Cashenvoy enabled websites. Cashenvoy seems like a start-up with potential, but for them to succeeed they face tough obstacles. A few amongst these include Low levels of trust with local consumers Competition with [...]

Naijaborn is a custom coded Nigerian social network founded by Francis Oghuma and Mambe Nanje Churchill in April of 2009. The social network has received considerable praise since its launch for its innovative design -with a lean towards artists- and for being entirely custom coded by the founders. Naijaborn is unique from other social networks [...]