Africa

The international media has been awash with the ephemerality of Snapchat -- an application for smartphones that allows users to send each other images and videos that “self-destruct” from servers after 10 seconds of viewing. For many, the use of this fast-growing app --Snapchat-- is worrying... Read More

Ambivalence. Chaos. Transformation. In three words, could possibly explain the past 50 years of Africa. In a continent marred by strife that undermines the Millennium Development Goals, a lot is left to be desired. Many are quick to point fingers at the less bothered dominating... Read More

As Winston Churchill puts it “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Before I (and the entire TechPost team) set out to burn midnight oil and light sabers in rewriting the African story marred by poverty porn, bad publicity and biased international... Read More

Are you a  photographer, an entrepreneur, a fashion designer or a community activist?  Do you have a healthy disregard for the impossible? Well, if  you are using the web and technology to do cool and extraordinary things, Google wants to hear your story. According to the... Read More

News coming in from Russia at the Microsoft Imagine Cup Awards Ceremony, Team Code 8 from Uganda won the  Women’s Empowerment Award. This was the 11th annual Microsoft Imagine cup which premiered competition from technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs to create innovative projects and ultimately bring those... Read More

When The US National Security Agency contractor/leaker Edward Snowden left his office   with four laptops and several thumb drives' worth of massive information about the US spy programme (PRISM) programs nobody suspected his routine action will go down in history as one of the biggest... Read More

In 2005, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea so innovative that it had the potential of improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries around the world.  He founded the One Laptop per Child(OLPC) organization to transform his vision into reality.Unfortunately,this cunning... Read More