Can an algorithm be racist?
Google translators limitations make for sometimes funny, sometimes dangerous results.
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Facebook Politics in Zimbabwe
The 'Baba Jukwa' Facebook page exposes state and ruling party corruption and correctly predicts leadership battles in Zimbabwe. Who is behind it?
Wole Soyinka has opinions about social media
"... I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium"
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
How a coup d’état drove a scholar to social media
Call me a curmudgeon, but I had never really understood the value of social media. I
The ‘digital music in Africa’ bandwagon
What The New York Times forgot to tell you about the explosion of digital music in Africa.
When videos of abuses by police go viral in Angola
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
Tech Apartheid
Our tech posts never stray from tweeting new data on Twitter and Facebook usage on the
Today I'll eat for Belgium
Yes, some Europeans, specifically Belgians — who else but “a fine group of web designers, web
'The Solar Oven Fallacy'
“There are three myths about technology,” [according to] Harish Hande, founder of SELCO-India, a “social enterprise”
Cameroon is Cameroon
A mix of factors - language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression - prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.
'Vote for Umblerra'
Probably to deal with the stresses associated with next month general elections scheduled for next month–there’s
Save the Museum (in Uganda)
Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
Dakar Modern
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I’ve been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily
The World According to Facebook
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see “how geography
What do leftists make of Wikileaks?
Not everyone is so taken with what Wikileaks has wrought. I’d be curious to hear what