Myself and David have been at SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest) in Austin, Texas this weekend. It's a strange mixture of conference, parties and meetings. David and I were here to talk on the "Emerging technology for emerging markets" panel. With us was Jon Gosier of Appfrica, Teddy Ruge of Project Diaspora and Rose Shuman of Question Box. I've been on a number of panels, and I have to say that this was one of the better ones, if for no other reason than everyone here really knew their stuff. It was interesting to see how Ushahidi has become an example of how Africans can develop their own projects and products for their own needs. At the same time we see Jon Gosier setting up the Appfrica Lab in Kampala, Uganda where he is developing products for groups both inside Uganda and others from the outside. We're coming into a new age in the African tech space, where there are now enough quality developers and enough business internally available in Africa, that the number continues to grow. That, on top of the growing need for mobile and web technology products by organizations in Africa, means that developers will be working at capacity for the next few years. Lastly, like we always say, Africa is a tough and trying environment to work in. For technological, environmental and bureaucratic reasons. However, that also makes it a great place to build, for we know if it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.