Basically, personal cloud computing means having every piece of data you need for every aspect of your life at your fingertips and ready for use. Data must be mobile, transferable, and instantly accessible. The key to enabling the portable and interactive you is the ability to synch up your data among your devices, as well as access to shared data. Shared data is the data we access online in any number of places, such as social networks, banks, blogs, newsrooms, paid communities, etc. Cloud computing for Africa is the dream come true since the main hindering factors of the advancement of IT industry in Africa where infrastructures and going cloud meaning that increasing ability to share resources in a virtual world rather than using physical hardware and resources in which in one way or the other it was difficult to achieve in our continent. For example now we don’t have to move physical servers and hardware from one area to another and reduce the cost and com
All Rights Reserved From White African Blog : Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa by HASH on June 6, 2012 I’m happy to finally be able to publicly announce the Savannah Fund , an accelerator fund focused on finding and investing in East Africa’s highest potential pre-revenue startups. It’s a partnership between Mbwana Alliy , Paul Bragiel and myself – along with a great list of limited partners (LPs) who are investing in the fund. The idea is to bring the Silicon Valley-style accelerator model to Africa, seeing what needs to be tweaked to make it work for our region. It’s a small fund at $10m, with most of the activity focused on classes of 5 startups at a time being brought on board and invested in. They’ll get $25,000 for 15% equity, and have 3-6 months to prove themselves. Those who fail either pivot or leave, those who gain traction have a chance at follow-on funding. A portion of the fund will be invested at the $100-200k range where we’