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Pamoja Media East Africa Limited is the winner of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2010 Climate Change Initiative Grant.
The $81,200 grant has been awarded to Pamoja Media East Africa Limited to support the development of an online knowledge sharing and management system that will facilitate research and development work on climate change resilience for African agriculture.
Pamoja Media’s [...]
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When web advertising first occurred, the industry was so young and immature that everyone relied on old print models to determine cost. That meant that the more prestigious a site name was, the more one could charge for that real estate regardless of the popularity or value of the traffic such a site brought. Similar [...]
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IT training for kids who live in the surrounding farm areas of Stutterheim outside East London in the Eastern Cape. South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank
It has been a famous rallying cry that Africa’s internet growth will continue skyrocketing. Research studies have proved the possibility of a viable market within certain countries [...]
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An interesting piece was done by White African on interactive marketing in Africa. This came about after a conversation he had with both Rob Stokes of Quirk Marketing and I. Since then I have been working at developing a blog conversation covering our experiences in Africa. Our aim is to get African corporations to start [...]
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White African writes, “Joshua Wanyama found himself in a bind. He had just moved back to Kenya after growing a successful web firm in the US.
Now he wanted to put Pamoja Media on the map in Africa, and he realized quite quickly that there was a major knowledge-gap in the interactive marketing space. [...]
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IT News Africa writes about Zimbabwe’s efforts to use digital marketing to expand the country’s tourism sector:
“A partnership between two government ministries in Zimbabwe will attempt to market the Southern African nation as an attractive tourist destination, using the internet as medium.
The Ministry of Information, Technology and Communication, in conjunction with the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality, [...]
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From theMarketingSite.com, announces the 4th Maputo International Ad Festival:
“AMEP, the event organiser of the Maputo International Advertising Festival, calls for entries to the fourth annual festival. The festival honours and recognizes advertising agencies, producers and other communication companies from any part of the world, especially from Southern Africa and Indian Ocean regions.
The competition submission categories [...]
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Pamoja Media was mentioned on Kabissa as Joshua Wanyama, one of our founders made the TED 2009 Inaugural Fellows list. They say:
I was really glad to get this email from TED about their new TED Fellows program, especially because I saw many friends and tech innovators working in Africa among the first group of 40 [...]
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Photo by Erik Hersman
Below is the text of the short talk I gave during the TED 2009 Fellows pre-conference day.
My earliest online experiences were a wonderful exploration of this virtual world where everything was possible. I remember reading stories of people doing amazing things online. Companies built on close to nothing but ideas and generating [...]
