In Äthiopien befinden sich vier regierungskritische Blogger des kollektiv betriebenen Blogs „Zone9“ seit 487 Tagen in Haft, ohne dass bisher…
Äthiopien, Blog, Bloggen, Menschenrechte, Überwachung, Verschlüsselung, Zone9Posts by Category: SPECIAL: Digital Africa
The 5th Invisible Borders Road Trip started on 2nd of June 2014. It is a trans-African project that brings together…
Angus McKinnon, Breeze Yoko, Dawit L. Petros, Emeka Okereke, Emmanuel Iduma, filming, graffiti, Heba Amin, Invisible Borders, Invisible Borders Road Trip, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Pan-Africanism, Photography, Renee Mboya, Tom Saater, Trans-Africanism, writing
If there will be any single movie that may change the way Europeans look on their fellow citizens on the…
Afrika, Documentary, Geraldine de Bastion, Made in Africa, re:publica, René von der Waar
Die App This is Africa ist für alle interessant, die stets auf der Suche nach neuer Musik sind, die den…
It has been a while since eufrika.org announced the countdown for AfricaHackTrip. Since then, the bunch of web designers and…
AfricaHackTrip, Barcamp, Hackathon, Internet, Kampala, Kenya, Nairobi, Outbox, SPECIAL: Digital Africa, Uganda, web designers, web programmers
#Africa Hack Trip: Unter diesem Motto arbeitet eine Gruppe europäischer Entwickler und Designer (“a bunch of hackers”), die “neugierig auf…
Africa Hack Trip, Hacker, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
“In this video we discuss the current state of the trip and look for sponsors.” For more information on that…
Africa Hack Trip, DEMO Africa Conference, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Why do we rely on equipment made for the Berlin, Orlando and Tokyo when the conditions we have in Nairobi,…
BRCK, Internet, modem, Ushahidi
In a report by the BBC News last year, Kenya’s permanent secretary for Information and Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo said…
Digital Africa, IT, Kenya, Moses Wasamu, Technology
AfricaHackTrip is a group of developers & designers from Europe and the United States, curious about the emerging African tech hubs.
AfricaHackTrip
Malawi is a booming mobile telecommunications market. From about 300.000 subscribers a decade ago, the subscription has rapidly grown to…
Airtel, Malawi, Mobile, Technology, TNM
A few years ago, a not-so-well-known but immensely talented rapper in Kibera wrote the following lines: Hakuna camera ina-face hii…
When event organisers published an advert for the event Occupy Parliament, nobody pictured pigs and teargas in the ‘peaceful demonstration’….
Kenya, Occupy Parliament, peaceful protests, pigs, teargas, Twitter
Eine internationale Jury aus 15 Internet-Aktivisten und Bloggern hat im Rahmen der Bobs Awards 2013 mehrere Online-Projekte afrikanischer Autoren ausgezeichnet….
Award, Bobs Awards, Deutsche Welle, Marokko, Mauretanien, Online Activism, Togo
We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps…
elections, Kenya, monitoring
Wie groß ist Afrika? Mit einer spektakulären Infografik macht sich der legendäre Software-Spezialist Kai Krause daran, die geläufigen Vorstellungen von…
Just before Christmas, the campaigners at Radi-Aid – Africa for Norway have dropped a new persiflage video to spread their…
Africa for Norway, Christmas, Radi-Aid, VideoChina pflegt in Afrika eine milliardenschwere Medienstrategie. Staats-Kredite für Infrastruktur und moderne Technik sind nur ein Teil davon. Africa Weekly…
Africa Weekly, Afrika, China, China Daily, Ghana, Kenia, Media, Presse
A website that reveals corruption and other scandals among high-ranking Kenyan politicians has become one of the country’s most-visited addresses…
Boniface Mwangi, corruption, Kenya, MaVultureCyber-Kriegsführung gehört nicht nur zum modernen Repertoire staatlicher Militärs. Hacker holen im Zeichen der Freiheit zum digitalen Gegenschlag aus, wie…
#OpEgypt, Anonymous, Ben Ali, Cyber-Krieg, Egypt, Hacker, Internet, Mubarak, Mursi, online, Tunesia
It was a film presentation following this year’s Afrikamera motto African woman on and behind the screen. On Friday evening,…
Afrikamera, Algeria, Angèle Diabang Brener, Berlin, cameroon, Cécile Mulombe, DRCongo, France, Karin Albou, Kenya, Nadia Rais, Pascale Obolo, Senegal, short films, TunisiaDaily urban life in Lilongwe, Balaka and Zomba, Malawi In its fifth episode the Eufrika Photo Report illustrates some street…
Balaka, Central region, Daily urban life, Lilongwe, Malawi, photo report, ZombaUsing all kinds of social media, Libyans have rejected any form of violence. This comes after the deadly attack on…
Benghazi, Christopher Stevens, Libya, Shabab Libya, social media, terrorism, The Sorry Project, US$
(eufrika) – With September being announced as first official Mbira Month, Zimbabwean musicians and artists throw a new light on…
cultural importance, curriculum, Mbira, Mbira Exhibition Online, Mbira Month, ZimbabweTimveni is to become the first child-run TV-station worldwide. In Malawi, the project has now been granted a license to…
child and youth journalism, license, Lilly Omondi, Malawi, Plan Malawi, Plan Sweden, Timveni, TV station, UNICEFA series of TV debates between the various parties’ candidates will sharpen the run-up to Egypt’s presidential elections later this…
Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Amr Moussa, Egypt, Mauritania, presidential elections, TV debateAfter receiving some harsh criticism there will not be further public viewings of the Kony 2012 movie in northern Uganda….
AYINET, criticism, Kony 2012, LRAFair Trade ist eine wachsende Sparte bei vielen Produktkategorien. Doch warum gibt es bisher noch kein fair gehandeltes Mobiltelefon? Ein…
Economy, Fair Trade, Handys, RohstoffeThe South African city of Stellenbosch will be the first African municipality to provide all its citizens free access to…
Internet, South Africa, Stellenbosch, Wi-FiIn einem Beitrag für Maooni.de hat sich Henri Depe Thatchu mit der Dynamik der Mediennutzung in afrikanischen Staaten befasst. In…
Digital, Henri Depe Thatchu, Internet, IT, MaooniAccording to information provided by the internet project oAfrica.com the social network facebook acquires still strong growth rates, especially in…
africa, Facebook, Internet, oAfrica.com, social network, SPECIAL: Digital Africa