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Comments on: Where are all the young black tech entrepreneurs in South Africa? http://blog.tech4africa.com/where-are-all-the-young-black-tech-entrepreneurs-in-south-africa/ Musings, announcements, and collateral damage from Tech4Africa. Thoughts our own. We're looking for contributors from across Africa. Email hello At tech4africa DOT com. Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.32 By: Keita Seye http://blog.tech4africa.com/where-are-all-the-young-black-tech-entrepreneurs-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:09:02 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=1328#comment-26 This cannot be true. You are not really looking – probably not attending the right events. Go to the barcamps sprawling all over and you will see the tech entrepreneurs. With very little folks like mpedigree – http://www.mpedigree.net, dreamoval – http://www.dreamoval.com, esoko, motech, msimps, cocoalink, and that’s just Ghana alone! pagatech, gyst, flowstyle etc etc etc…if they are doing this with no money what will happen if people like you spend your time supporting those who are actually doing things rather than just always complaining that THEY ARE NOT THERE? But there THEY ARE!

]]> By: JP http://blog.tech4africa.com/where-are-all-the-young-black-tech-entrepreneurs-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:18:15 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=1328#comment-25 For me, I think it has mostly to do with 1) capital priorities and 2) your point about exposure. It’s not about race, but if it has any influence on my response, I’m white and quite active in the tech developer scene.

1) For me, the biggest balancing act in a start-up is capital. Usually tech innovators have broken away from their guaranteed paychecks and are trying to code away at their big bang ideas from garages, bedrooms etc. Sure there was a lot to offer at the t4a get together but at up to R6500 a ticket – to me its about priority – 6500 on a 2day ticket to hear some guru speakers or a 6500 on a new device to test that your mobile project is compatible. Just saying that many of the real innovators are not privvy to company sponsorships and this being africa where most developers are not ‘hugged’ as well as they are overseas – events like t4a – they’re just out of reach.

2) Yes, I think it would be a valuable exercise to re-think your exposure and community awareness approaches. I only found out about the t4a event and actually the entire organisation yesterday via an outdated Samsung Blog post calling for developers with ideas – way to late to do anything about it. And I would consider myself to be quite active in the Tech scene, so I guess one approach for next year is to get more people blogging and tweeting earlier.

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