Some positive news.





Filling Africa's technology skills gap

By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News, Nairobi


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19234417









Lease Mutisya says the internship has helped her decide where her ambitions lie


Nancy Wang (far right) with her M-Kazi co-founders Lino Carcoforo and Mem Maina. "There's an incredible pool of working Kenyans who are very highly educated," she says.



Monicah Ngongoo started her marketing and printing services company in October 2010, with a loan from two friends to buy printing equipment

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Reinventing technology in Africa for Africans

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120810-reinventing-technology-in-africa/1


Africa is the hottest date in town.

Not a day goes by without me receiving an email about technology in Africa. NGOs, venture capitalists, wannabe investors, donors or technology providers from the US, UK, and Asia are all looking to explore the Africa continent.

Organisations want to tap into the African market because they have read somewhere in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or the New York Times that Africa is booming and that the continent is rising.





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From Kenya to Madagascar: The African tech-hub boom
Viewpoint by Erik Hersman Technologist, blogger, co-founder of Ushahidi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18878585


Where the magic happens: iHub in Kenya is just one of several technology centres across Africa

There's a buzz, a palpable energy, running through the corridors of Africa's capitals and urban areas, and much of it revolves around tech.