In my previous post, I talked about open data and how making the Nigerian postcode data open and more accessible has a wide potential for powering several applications. I’ve received several comments on Facebook with even more examples on how that data could be useful. In this post, I would share how this extraction was… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Nigeria
Web APIs and Mashups Seminar in Jos
I spent last week in the city of Jos where I went to spend some time with my family and also attend my class reunion. I had an idea to organize a seminar where I’ll teach and talk about anything I thought would be cool and constitute new knowledge. So I went about contacting some… Read more »
StartupsNigeria.com: A family feud?
The blog post title says it all. My memory fails me as to the exact date the popular blog – StartupsNigeria.com went offline. There could have been several reasons why it was offline but one day, two days, one week… the site was still offline. I started to get a bit concerned. I began to… Read more »
Google’s Free SMS Search in Nigeria and Ghana
I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon (no pun intended) this very exciting news but I did realize that this had been out since January and I only got to know about it today and that’s precisely the reason why I’m blogging about it. It’s come to my notice that a lot of good,… Read more »
Technology Times Outlook 2009 Roundup
Technology Times Outlook is an annual event organized by The Technology Times Newspaper which is aimed at getting industry leaders together to come and discuss and deliberate on technology issues in the country and give road maps on ICT development in Nigeria. This year, we had Mr. Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank Plc, Engr. Ernest… Read more »