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Erik Hersman

@whiteafrican

Where Africa and technology collide... Co-founder of Ushahidi, iHub Nairobi and AfriGadget. Senior TED and PopTech Fellow.

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At the launch, Nairobi's newest business incubator (next to YaYa).

Visitors from PayPal, FNB bank and Equity bank visit with of today.

Crashing the "big data for the public good" event. Great space!

Had jus bought some of this, amazing magical material for fixing and modifying stuff

Great to run into founder and TED Fellow at #MakeHIW

Ran into founder and TED Fellow at #MakeHIW

On a Big Data session with at #ONEF12

. of the meets his puppet-self, like the ones on the XYZ show from Kenya

How cool would it be if this USB input on Qatar Airways powered my phone and allowed me to play videos on the screen.

great to have from NASA at the iHub for the Int'l Space Apps Challenge. #SpaceApps

Organic farmer John Cheburet and talk about the thousands of farmers reached in Kenya via

Doing the final judging of Nairobi #ScienceHackDay with and

As I said, major flooding in Ngong. Huge overlap jams. Matatus' stuck.

Checking out the #sciencehackday setup before I judge things on Sunday.

Mobile operator market share and value of mobile money transactions in Kenya (chart):

full room at the "Catastrophic Risks and Threats" session with Larry Brilliant and Arianna Huffington. #SkollWF

Grabbing lunch with the other TED Fellows at #SkollWF and Jane of

Great to see on the #SkollWF stage for the opening plenary.

Jeff Skoll takes the stage at #SkollWF

Just got to #oxfordjam for my 3pm session, here with of Twitter.