Tech4Africa, a glance at the future

Entrepreneurs and developers from all over Africa and beyond are meeting at the Tech4Africa conference which ends this Friday in Johannesburg.

The two-day event centres on mobile, web and emerging technologies with the goal of bringing a global perspective to the African context and finding African solutions for African problems.

The issues being discussed include applications for Web 2.0, cloud computing, African success stories and the funding landscape on the continent.

The BBC's Bola Mosuro, from our Network Africa programme, spoke to two of the participants, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, from Nigeria, founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology, and Gustav Praekelt, from South Africa, whose medical appointment reminder system, TxtAlert, won the 2011 Tech4Africa Innovation Award.

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