The Digital Continent
By Hosted by TMS Ruge
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Podcast Description
An interview podcast featuring the key innovators and entrepreneurs whose work is making it easier to experience and contribute to the web in Africa. The Digital Continent is hosted by Teddy Ruge.
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Episode 14: Lukonga Lindunda | 52:00 min | Download | Listen in iTunes Lukonga Lindunda talks to TMS Ruge about his passion for technology and education in Zambia today, and the creation of Bongo Hive, an innovation hub in Lusaka. Lukonga is the co-founder of Bongo Hive, a technology a | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13: Ethan Zuckerman | 1:00:17 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS talks to Ethan Zuckerman about his experience living and working in Accra, his work with Global Voices, the Kony 2012 campaign by Invisible Children, and his goals and hopes for the wider web. Ethan Zuckerman | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Churchill Mambe Nanje | 51:22 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS talks to serial software entreprenuer Churchill Mambe Nanje about the challenges and benefits of being a software entreprenuer in Africa, the importance of protecting intellectual property and the significance o | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Ory Okolloh | 1:27:14 min | Download | Listen in iTunes In the first episode of 2012, TMS sits down for a chat with Ory Okolloh to talk about her transformation from young nerd to one of the most effective activists for citizen empowerment to come out of Africa in the | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10: Mike Stopforth | 19:56 min | Download | Listen in iTunes In our final episode of 2011 TMS Ruge has a chat with Mike Stopforth about his role as a CEO of a social media communications agency and what it takes to bring great African content to the web. A hint: solve local p | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9: Ken Banks | 57:19 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS Ruge talks to Ken Banks, the founder of kiwanja.net. and a recognized specialist in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change. His most celebrated innovation is Frontline | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8: Erik Hersman | 42:20 min | Download | Listen in iTunes Erik Hersman joins TMS Ruge to talk about internet connectivity in Kenya, technology localization, monopolies and disruption to internet access in Africa, and moving beyond perceptions of African ingenuity as limite | 10/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7: Benge Solomon King | 1:11:48 min | Download | Listen in iTunes Solomon Benge King joins TMS Ruge to talk about his work with Node Six, and his passion for robotics, and his impressions of the flaws of Uganda’s education system. While some may know Solomon King as one of | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: Evelyn Namara | 52:29 min | Download | Listen in iTunes In this episode TMS Ruge interviews Evelyn Namara about investing in female entrepreneurs in rural areas, earning respect as a competent techie and entrepreneur from male colleagues and clients, and about the dizzyi | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: Jon Gosier | 59:36 min | Download | Listen in iTunes In this episode Jon Gosier joins TMS Ruge to talk about his extraordinary and well-documented career in the tech space and the growth in reputation and credibility of the tech sector in East Africa. They discuss the | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4: Joeri Poesen | 55:34 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS Ruge interviews Joeri Poesen, an open source advocate and the co-founder of Bantalabs, an open source web development, consulting and training firm with offices in Senegal and France. Joeri talks about choosing | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3: Isis Nyong'o | 34:12 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS Ruge interviews Isis Nyong’o, VP and Managing Director InMobi Africa. Together they talk about the pace of growth in mobile web access, they contrast start up cultures in Silicon Valley to those in Kenya, | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2: Jepchumba and Barbara Muriungi | 46:52 min | Download | Listen in iTunes TMS Ruge speaks with Jepchumba and Barbara Muriungi of African Digital Art Network at iHub in Nairobi. Together, they talk about the opportunities, the challenges, and what it is like to work in digital design in A | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1: John Kieti | 30:46 min | Download | Listen in iTunes Host TMS Ruge talks to John Kieti, manager of m:lab East Africa about the process of building the region’s new business incubator for companies developing mobile applications. John Kieti’s vision is that | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Finally what Africa was waiting for...
Africa is currently experiencing a technology explosion. This podcast offers a much needed perspective of how technology is influencing the modern African context. It is wonderful to hear from all the movers and shakers in the African tech space as they navigate through unchartered territory. Great podcast. A must listen.
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