Year: 2010

HONG KONG–In a muggy, overcast and polluted city like Hong Kong, it seemed somewhat apropos to gather together thought leaders from the mobile industry for a discussion on mobile computing and the cloud. That fluffy, shape shifting, overshadowing “cloud,” which has managed to escape proper definition for a couple of years already and which is becoming ever more amorphous as it floats onto the mobile horizon. “The cloud is the driver of the app economy,” declared one speaker, presenting a rather complex slide to better illustrate his point. Meanwhile, Cat Purvis, partner at consulting firm Exicon, preferred to describe the mysterious …

infoDev is pleased to announce the first six of eight grants for mobile social networking activities under the Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy program, part of a partnership among infoDev, the Government of Finland, and Nokia. The awards will be for US $35,000 and will be made as follows: Kenya: Akirachix Uganda:  MoMo Kampala Tanzania: COSTECH Mozambique: Mobile Monday Vietnam: CRC Topica Nepal: Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd. These organizations will support preexisting or establish new social networking hubs and complementary online communication channels to foster collaboration among developers, entrepreneurs, mentors, partners, investors and other technologists working in the …

Kenya grabs a lot of attention with mobile money, but is all the innovation happening at the top of the food chain? We don’t think so. In fact, working with FSD Kenya and some great ex-Unitus folks, we’ve found a veritable hotbed of Kenyan entrepreneurs spinning out one exciting idea after another. But as exciting as their ideas are, nearly all these entrepreneurs are somewhere in the “valley of death”, past funding from friends and family, short of commercial investment. There are some good resources out there. iHub and Mobile Monday have surged into the gap providing a space — …