Erik Hersman is the Cornucopia of compelling Africa-oriented web content. He has offered insightful anecdotes and perspectives on the place “where Africa and technology collide” for years (quote from Erik’s blog).
He has experience in Web strategy as a technologist, and experience with the juxtaposition of “developed” and “developing” regions–as a past or present resident in [...]
Erik Pukinskis is currently a PhD student in the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab in the Cognitive Science department at the University of California in San Diego.
He previously had an opportunity to work on the interface of an ambitious project: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
His focus was on re-working the user interface of [...]
The Friday, 20 April 2007 BBC News headline read:
“Texts monitor Nigerian elections”
“Anyone trying to rig or tamper with Saturday’s presidential elections in Nigeria could be caught out by a team of volunteers armed with mobile phones.”
“NMEM is using a free system called Frontline SMS, developed by programmer Ken Banks, to keep track of all of [...]
