Tech4Africa
Q & A with keynote speaker Leila Janah at Tech4Africa
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
In this video, Leila Chirayath Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, answers questions from the Tech4Africa attendees after her keynote address.
Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder and CEO of Samasource a social business that connects over 800 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to digital work. Samasource's iPhone application, "Give Work," employs innovative crowdsourcing technology and has been downloaded by over 20,000 volunteers in 75 countries. Samasource is a current grantee of the Rockefeller and Mulago Foundations and a recipient of the Netexplorateur Innovation Prize from the French Senate. Earlier in her career, Janah was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, a Yale-based nonprofit developing new financing mechanisms for pharmaceutical R&D on neglected diseases, and a consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Company), where she served leading companies in the telecommunications, healthcare, and outsourcing sectors.
Ms. Janah has published academic research with the World Bank's Development Research Group and is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The New Scientist, and in 2010, she was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Women in Technology. She serves on the board of TechSoup Global and is a member of International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' sub-committee on Corporate Social Responsibility. Leila received a BA from Harvard University.
Find her on Twitter @leila_c
Rocking iPhone and Android Development with Jonathan Snook
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
Here is a look at Jonathan Snook's presentation entitled 'Rocking iPhone and Android development' which looks at how smartphones are here to stay, and with them come many opportunities for creating engaging applications that are profitable and useful. The talk looked at how to get started, discover tips and tools and stay ahead of the curve.
A taste of technology at the inaugural Tech4Africa conference
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
In this video, Gaby Rosario chats to Gareth Knight, founder of Tech4Africa, to find out what the conference is all about, as well as to several conference goers who share their experiences with us.
If you missed it, take a look to find out more and get your applications in for Tech4Africa 2011.
Unobtrusive interfaces with Dustin Diaz at Tech4Africa
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
In this video, Twitter's Dustin Diaz presents his talk, 'Unobtrusive Interfaces with js', a look at Javascript and how, when used in the right way, enables incredibly rich and engaging user interfaces through the browser.
Alex Hunter talks Brand Building online at Tech4Africa
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
In this video we feature Alex Hunter's presentation at Tech4Africa entitled 'Brand Building online', a look at how people all over the world research, discuss, interact and buy from brands online. Yet, creating and maintaining a corporate brand online is a minefield of best practice and user opinion.
Alex Hunter (haebc) is the former Head of Online Marketing for Virgin Group.
John Resig's jQuery Ninja talk at Tech4Africa
Zoopy TV was the official social media partner of Tech4Africa 2010 and produced a series of interviews and glimpses of the event.
In this video, John Resig presents his 6 Secrets to becoming a jQuery Ninja address on how jQuery is arguably the most popular and useful Javascript framework available today.
As a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation, author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques and the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, attendees were able to learn from its developer.
Currently Resig is hard at work on his second book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, due in bookstores in 2009.
Find out more at: LinkedIn, his Projects, and his Research.
Currently, John is located in Boston, MA.
Find him on Twitter @jeresig
Tech4Africa
3 months ago
Tech4Africa is a web & emerging technology conference bringing global perspective to the African context. With speakers such as Clay Shirky and Matt Mullenweg leading the stellar lline-up, Tech4Africa will provide a rare opportunity to learn first hand about the role that emerging and Web technologies have to play in African business and development. Further speakers include representatives from organisations such as Twitter, Mozilla, WordPress and Yahoo! as well as leading African technologists. Tech4Africa runs from 12-13 August 2010 at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg. Workshops will be held on 10-11 August. For more information visit http://tech4africa.com.
