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Nigerian (Mobile) Election Monitoring Report

May 14, 2007 / / 2 Comments

Nigeria Election MonitoringI recently interviewed Ken Banks, the creator of the software used to monitor the recent Nigerian elections. Ken just sent me a copy of the Nigerian Election Monitoring Report (PDF), compiled by the Network of Mobile Election Monitors (NMEM). It’s a fascinating read, primarily because it’s a grassroots story and one that you would not normally hear from the press.

Traditionally Election observers and monitors deemed credible are often foreign diplomats, bureaucrats and professionals who are sent to visit as many polling stations as they can and inform the world of their impression of the polls. Their effectiveness is limited to the number of places they can visit in a just one day: in a country as vast as Nigeria; without maps or road signs to use in Navigation, these Foreign observers often limit their activities to Abuja (the Nations Capital), Lagos and a few major State Capitals. Places like the Niger Delta with its reputation for violence and kidnapping of Foreigners are no go areas.

A sample text message sent to NMEM:

“Almost all result sheets diverted by PDP stalwarts and INEC ad-hoc staff on the way to wards polling stations in Nsukka Enugu State. By Raph. A. N.”

This type of election monitoring is ground breaking in Africa. I wouldn’t be surprised if it continued to be a case study for future monitoring efforts around the continent – it perfectly showcases how technology can be used to circumnavigate government and organizational inefficiencies by going directly to the people. Make sure you take the time to read this paper. (download the PDF)

Africa Enterprising Blog Network

May 14, 2007 / / 2 Comments

Benin Mwangi is coordinating a Google group for people who write about business in Africa. Benin has been especially active in writing about entrepreneurs in and around Africa, so it makes perfect sense for him to put this group together.

The idea behind this type of network is that although me may each be very skilled and talented on the individual level, together we can do even more to promote busines and entrepreneurship in Africa. (more on Benin’s blog)

If you blog about African business, this could be a good group to network within. Click the link below to join.

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A Look at African Computer Gaming

May 11, 2007 / / 21 Comments

African Multiplayer Online Game

A recent post on a Kenyan 3D game, and spurred on by a comment (and subsequent emails) from a Ghanaian game developer, has led me to do some more research into African developed computer games (or games focused directly on Africa). The types of games that I came across seem to fit into 3 categories:

  • Mini-Games – Fun little Flash games used as promotional tools for companies and organizations.
  • Themed Africa – These are the games like Halo 2, Metal Gear and Call of Duty that use Africa as a backdrop, but not as an overriding theme for the whole game.
  • Pure African – Developed by Africans or with a complete focus on creating a totally African game.

Below are some of the highlights of my research across the gaming industry, it’s not an exhaustive list.

Transaid Challenge (Mini-game)
In 2006, an international aid organization called Transaid developed a fun car racing game to, “highlight the tough transport challenges faced by health workers delivering medical supplies to remote African villages.” Honestly, I was skeptical of this game at first, but it did prove to be a fun little Flash game. Someone could definitely expand on this basic idea and create a really fun web-based multi-person game.

Transaid’s African Car Game

Africa (Pure African)
This project might be dead, unfortunately, since it really is a great idea. Africa is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game that puts players into 13th century Africa. Again, this is an outstanding game concept, hopefully it will be resurrected and made. (Read more here)

Take up your spear and set forth on an unforgettable adventure in 13th century Africa. Choose from one of the many kingdoms or found your own tribe. Protect your people and conquer your enemies, and the Griots will sing the praises of your heroic deeds. Farm the land, herd cattle, grow wealthy through trade, become a mighty warrior, master the wisdom of the ancients, or rule an empire. The choice is yours.

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Africa Themed Games:
Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa – Combining features of tycoon and puzzle games, Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa also includes a feature called “Be the Animal”, which lets you hunt, fly, or flee with any creature.

Cabela’s African Safari – Hunt animals in Africa.

In Development:
Sword of Sygos (being developed in Ghana)
Sword of Sygos, thought it’s being developed in Africa, actually takes place in Rome. Eyram is a passionate game developer, so I look forward to seeing their final product.

Adventures of Nyangi (being developed in Kenya)
A 3D computer adventure game that takes place in a fictional African setting.

Summary
Africa provides a rich, and virtually untapped, setting for gaming. This especially holds true for online gaming and mobile gaming of the future. Outside of Africa, developers like to use Africa as a theme, but they still seem to miss out on the great depth of history and adventure this continent has to offer. I’m glad to see that there is some development going on in the continent, and I hope to see a lot more in the future.

Zookoda Bought out by PayPerPost

May 10, 2007 / / 2 Comments

Zookoda, my favorite blog-to-email application was bought out by PayPerPost in late April. (they’re listed in an earlier “Top 10 Tools for Bloggers” post”

PayPerPost Acquires Zookoda

I’ve written about PayPerPost before (here and here), it’s a way for bloggers to make money by writing about products and services. PayPerPost is the platform that brings advertisers and bloggers together.

From DigitalMediaWire:

Zookoda, a company that provides a technology solution currently used by over 10,000 bloggers around the world to update their readers via email whenever they issue a new post. Over 2.3 million people opt-in to blog newsletters powered by Zookoda technology. “We now have 5,500 advertisers and 22,000 blogs in our network, says Ted Murphy. “Zookoda helps building traffic for our bloggers which in terms gives our advertisers more exposure.”

This is big news, it means that PPP is moving towards a more holistic presence among bloggers. I wouldn’t be surprised if they added a blog stats feature as well, it would allow them to present a full package to bloggers.

Ted Murphy, founder of PayPerPost, did mention to me that the Australian founder of Zookoda is with them for a little while. He still won’t tell me the price, but I guess that’s fair. Anyway, good luck to PPP, and congrats to Zookoda.

Jahazi: Your Internet All in One Place

May 8, 2007 / / 39 Comments

Jahazi: Simplicity and Speed for the Common Mwananchi

Jahazi logoA group of Kenyan developers have been working for a couple of years to develop an all-in-one solution for email, sms, chat, browsing, etc called Jahazi. It’s a client-side application that you have to download, which means it will be housed on your computer. However, the data is all stored on their servers though, not on your computer – which means as long as you find a computer with Jahazi on it – or you carry it on a USB stick/drive – then you can access your information.

Jahazi: ChannelsJahazi works off of a simple “channels” system. You add the channels you are interested in having as a part of your account, be it email, SMS, chat, a web browser or an address book. They’re building the service to be extendable so that other developers can add channels and make new services available to the Jahazi userbase.

I like what I see so far. It’s a well designed, easy to use and fast Flash application. I imagine it’s even faster if you’re sitting in Nairobi, seeing as I have to deal with a number of international connections to get to the Jahazi database. I imagine that the number of users for a free service like this will skyrocket if they can get critical mass within the cyber cafes and if they make it a better/cheaper way to SMS.

What I like

  • It’s hosted in locally (in Kenya) for locals
  • Portability via USB
  • Extendability allowing for other developers to create more channels
  • It’s viral – you get 25 free SMS’s when you use Jahazi to signup more friends

What I’d like to see

  • A web-based version
  • A scaled down mobile version
  • Ability to use a different email address instead of the default (username)@jahazi.com

Below is a screenshot of the email channel:
Jahazi email channel

Only true journalists are worth reading, and other links of interest

May 7, 2007 / / 9 Comments

Only true journalists are worth reading, or so we’re told…
Like a lot of the South African blogosphere, I’m a little stunned by the arrogance and sarcasm coming from Sunday Times columnist David Bullard. He writes an essay where bloggers are considered the sociopathic “air guitarists” of media. Vincent Maher goes on the offensive against Bullard and sums up some great points on why his essay is so myopic.

African Signals has been picking up:
Here are two of the recent interviews on African Signals. If I thought I knew a lot about what was going on in the industry in Africa, I’m getting an education on the real scope of change that is happening throughout the continent. Now, more than ever, I know that the tech revolution in Africa has begun.

Interviewing the Maker of the Nigerian SMS Election Monitoring System – Ken Banks

A Talk with Eric Osiakwan of AfrISPA

A Paul Graham Essay
Paul Graham generally has incredibly well written essays. This one is no different. In it he compares unions to startups.

An Alternative Theory of Unions – Paul Graham

MBAs Without Borders

May 3, 2007 / / 4 Comments

(I found this via Springwise , one of my favorite sites.)

MBAs without borders

MBAs Without Borders (MWB) is an organization that is sends MBA professionals all over the world to developing nations. Generally, I’m not big on “development initiatives” since they rarely have a long-term perspective for Africa. However, I see this one differently. Highly educated individuals donate their time and expertise to train entrepreneurs and business owners in the developing world.

That type of help can be hugely rewarding for the long-term in Africa. It promotes sound business principals that help these entrepreneurs succeed well after the MBA has left. In fact, if they’re good enough, I can see how the lessons learned will start to spread to other business owners and entrepreneurs in the community as well.

They’re operating in these African countries so far:

  • Nigeria
  • Ghana
  • Sierra Leone
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • Zimbabwe

A few examples of what they’ve done:

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: Working with a local NGO, funded by the Africa Development Fund, assisting grassroots ventures in process development, developing organization’s website and performing management training of microfinance loan tracking software.

Freetown, Sierra Leone & Lagos, Nigeria: Working with Danish company, Vestergaard Fransden (VF) to market and develop life-saving products for malaria and water-borne disease; coordinating contracts and logistics with the Ministry of Health (VF).

Ye Olde World Map of Online Communities

May 2, 2007 / / 6 Comments

This had me chuckling today… A fun look at the present world of online communities. It’s heavily skewed to the US market, but many of the sites are global.

xkcd’s map of online communities

click on the image for a larger sample

Two Posts on Mobile Phones in Africa Worth Reading

April 29, 2007 / / 2 Comments

Found both of these gems this weekend. I don’t have much to add, they’re already so well written:

Whythawk – Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone

And you don’t necessarily need the Internet for this at all.

What people want from the Internet is becoming more easily achievable through their cellphones. What happens to Internet music downloads when your iPod can do it directly? Social networking makes more sense on a small device or phone that is always with you than on a computer which is fixed in space. And the nature of that small device changes the way you interact.

Ethan Zuckerman – Geek tracking, African hacking

Eagle points out that 59% of mobile phone users are in the developing world. In Kilifi, he’s able to pay for his cab with his mobile, something he can’t do in the US. Africa is the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. While there are only 200,000 households with electricity, there are 7 million mobile phone users. He tells us about a trip to “cellphone alley” in Nairobi, where he picked out the innards, a colored case, a keypad and had the phone soldered together, giving him an unlocked GSM phone for $15.

An African 3D Adventure Game

April 27, 2007 / / 31 Comments

A Kenyan programmer out of Nairobi has developed a downloadable 3D adventure game called “Adventures of Nyangi“. Wesley, the creator, mentions that he thinks it might be the first 3D game developed in Africa – I have to check on that, so does anyone know if that’s true?

So, I come from a background of computer gaming. It would be easy for me to think of all that can be done to make it better. However, what has to be remembered is this is his first try and it is new in Africa. It could be the beginnings, or at least plant the seeds, for a future game out of Africa.

All technology and graphics arguments aside, there’s are even bigger reasons why this is important. First, It shows that developers in Africa are thinking of new things. Second, and more importantly, Africa represents an untapped cultural powerhouse that the rest of the world could really benefit from. Let’s see more games with some African flavor in them.

I don’t see any reason why a great game couldn’t be created in Kenya, or anywhere else in Africa for that matter.

[Nino, thanks for bringing this to my attention]

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