In the press / T4A 2010

The conference

• ITWeb: “World’s tech gurus head to SA”
• Homecoming Revolution: “South Africa to host top technology conference”
• News24: “Top speakers at tech conference”
• My Digital Life: “First tech conference in South Africa”
• Tech Central: “Shirky to keynote at Tech4Africa”
• Times Live: “Leila Chirayath Janah: Keynote speaker at the Tech4Africa Conference”
• The Daily Maverick: “Steve Vosloo will be speaking at Tech4Africa”
• The Marketing Site: “Global experts to share knowledge at Tech4Africa workshops”
• Bizcommunity: “African technology to compete on a global stage”
• Memeburn: “African entrepreneurs need to actively embrace world expertise”
• Bizcommunity: “Tech4Africa raises the networking bar”
• CIO: “Tech4Africa integrates speaker-delegate interaction”
• News24: “Tech4Africa raises the networking bar”
• News24: “Tech conference to ‘inspire’”
• Memeburn: “Tech4Africa conference driven by ‘anger and pride’”
• News24: “From Africa to the world, with love”

Speakers

• Memeburn: “Clay Shirky on ‘freak-outs from Africa’ and becoming Clay Shirky”
• ITWeb: “Social media mobilises change”
• The Daily Maverick: “Clay Shirky and humanity’s cognitive surplus”
• Memeburn: “Interview: Clay Shirky on cognitive surplus and how his mind work”
• ITWeb: “Leila Chirayath Janah’s new world of work”
• The Daily Maverick: “Samasource, a cyber solution to global poverty”
• ITWeb: “Digging Joe Stump’s simple business truisms”
• Memeburn: “Interview: UX guru Andy Budd on why most websites are ‘leaking buckets’”
• Bizcommunity: “Redesigning the web so consumers benefit”
• ITWeb: “Jonathan Snook’s street smarts”
• The Daily Maverik: “The technology that’s seriously upsetting the aid sector, and the man behind it”
• Memeburn: “Interview: Obami founder Barbara Mallinson on startups and e-learning”
• Bizcommunity: “If only Cell C had hired Alex Hunter…”
• Memeburn: “Former Virgin online marketing head on the future of online advertising”
• Memeburn: “Interview: Walter Pike on mobile, Google and augmented reality”
• Bizcommunity: “Mobile app providers rethink industry image”

Seedcamp

• Memeburn “Seedcamp to jump-start African entrepreneurs”
• Balancing Act: “Creating the right weather for Africa’s services and applications entrepreneurs”
• Homecoming Revolution: “Seedcamp to jump-start African entrepreneurs at Tech4Africa conference”
• ITWeb: “Start-ups compete for investment”
• My Broadband: “Funding for African startup companies”
• My Broadband: “New money and opportunities open up in Africa”
• Silicon Cape: “Seedcamp to jump-start African entrepreneurs at Tech4Africa conference“
• ITWeb: “Africa ripe for investment”
• Seedcamp: “Howzit?! Seedcamp Johannesburg recap”
• Memeburn: “11 top African tech startups to watch, says Seedcamp”
• Times Live: “Africa’s tech start-ups break ground”

Outcomes

• The Guardian (UK): “South Africa last week: A historic heart and a challenge to Google“
• News24: “Communication drives the web”
• News24: “Clay Shirky at Tech4Africa”
• News24: “Organisations must ‘adapt or die‘”
• Business Day: I’ll eat my words – “Tech4Africa has been an eye opener”
  
• News24: “Clay Shirky Q&A”
• Tech Crunch (US): “Tech For (And By) Africa”
• News24: “Leila Janah Q&A Part 1” and “Part 2”
• Memeburn: “UX guru Andy Budd warns that websites ignore usability at their peril”
• News24: “Quality is Apple’s secret”
• News24: “The making of Ushahidi”
• Memeburn: “Lead developers from web giants share their insights at Tech4Africa”
• News24: “Information wars begin – expert”
• Memeburn: “How to build global technology companies from Africa”
• ITWeb: “VOIP heats up telco competition”
• News24: “Expert slams communication costs”
• Tech Central: “‘Potato’ project to connect African villages”
• Memeburn: “18 questions with Shuttleworth Foundation’s Steve Song”
• News24: “Heffalumps in the room?”
• Tech Central: “SA telecoms in ‘crisis’”
• News24: “Web brands just as important”
• News24: “Broadband landscape changing”