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Lance Harris
Lance Harris is a writer with more than 18 years of experience. Over the years, Lance has written about technology in business, the business of technology, and the African telecommunications industry for many of South Africa’s top business and IT publications.
Hilary Heuler
Hilary is an itinerant print and radio journalist who originally hails from Southern California. In recent years her travels have taken her to Europe, Asia and Africa, where she has reported on everything from techie innovations to antique riverboats. She is currently based in Kampala, Uganda, where she's busy swatting mosquitoes and keeping an eye on the ways technology can impact society.
Adam Oxford
Adam Oxford is the editor-in-chief of htxt.co.za, a South African tech blog that covers issues from around the country and the continent beyond. Based in Johannesburg but originally from the UK, he's written for most of the major technology publishers over the last 17 years, covering everything from PC gaming to photography to Linux to open data and emerging tech markets.
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$30m Microsoft training scheme aims to get 3,000 South Africans into IT
Microsoft says expanded training scheme can create 3,000 new jobs over next three years.
The limited promise of 4G: What does the LTE switch-on mean for Africa?
South African telco MTN has launched LTE in Uganda. Will fourth-generation services really shake-up the mobile market there?
BlackBerry opens third Apps Lab in South Africa
Third facility for software developers and training has opened its doors in Johannesburg, aiming to forge contacts with local startups and nearby universities.
If it works in Africa, it'll work anywhere: Kenya's hard-as-nails BRCK modem gets go-ahead
Non-profit tech company Ushahidi surpasses its $125,000 funding goal for its 'backup generator to the internet' with seven days to spare.
Microsoft launches next TV white space pilot in Tanzania
Project in Dar es Salaam will focus on how TV white spaces can be used for broadband access in urban settings.
From cute apps to 'show me the money': The changing face of Uganda's young startup scene
Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' may be getting all the headlines, but Uganda is quietly growing its own startup ecosystem.
Hacking for charity: How one former hacker is getting techies lending a hand in Africa
j0hnnyhax didn't know much about Uganda, but he knew about hackers...
IBM takes SKA technologies from deep space to the datacentre
Big Blue hopes that emerging technologies designed to handle big data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will translate into datacentre breakthroughs over the next few years.
How Africa's new tech cities could change the continent's IT landscape
Skills, regulation and how they're able to specialise are among the key factors that will determine whether Africa’s new tech cities prosper or falter, according to analysts.