Posts tagged tech

Africa Programmers Survey Results

Interesting survey conducted by Afrinnovator on the programmer landscape in Africa. Great data, especially re: the types of languages and platforms used for developing web and mobile applications. That said, the survey also shows an unsettling problem — the lack of female programmers. Out of the 181 survey participants, only 9 were women.

Read the survey results.

The brains behind: Dead Drops

Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl has been embedding USB sticks in walls in New York to create an offline filesharing network, with the locations of the “dead drops” posted online.