The United Nations Millenium Campaign made an important step this week by allowing Kenyans to send text messages directly to government offices when services are subpar.

A new network will focus on connecting young entrepreneurs, web and mobile-phone programmers, designers, and investors.

A global, intellectual glitterati will hit Long Beach in February, 2011.

While Sudanese vote about the fate of South Sudan's independence, one Sudan-born Texan supports the voting process from afar with a historic mobile-powered monitoring tool.

IBM's move signifies a growing trend and a renewed insight--that Africa is rich with innovation hotspots.

Fast Company catches up with Erik Hersman, the man behind the groundbreaking crowdsourcing tool, Ushahidi, as Kenya holds its constitutional referendum.

In the fourth installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project, White African's Erik Hersman takes the FLAP prototype to Africa for testing.

The second installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project.

With a group of partners, PopTech reinvents a staple of conferences, the swag bag, as a tool for the developing world.