SoCap08 Entrepreneur Profiles: Jonathan Gosier

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2008-10-10 06:30:00 UTC
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To survey the growing African web tech scene is to see a community of people who seemed to have completely missed the memo that Africa is a poor, underdeveloped continent. In places like Nairobi, Cape Town, and Kampala, communities of web developers and entrepreneurs are innovating solutions to economic and social problems, and creating a new infrastructure for collaboration.

American-born entrepreneur and developer Jonathan Gosier wants you to know more about this explosion of creativity. In the last year, the Kampala, Uganda-based Jonathan has become an essential chronicler of African technology companies at his Appfrica blog. Perhaps even more importantly, however, he has begun to develop a set of information-sharing tools to raise the level of transparency, awareness and idea exchange in the African web tech scene.

One of Appfrica’s most exciting projects is an “Afridex” a tool that builds upon the model of the TechCrunch Crunchbase that provides an easy, common reference for web2.0 companies and entrepreneurs. By putting information about African web companies in one place, Appfrica’s tool hopes to make it easier for investors and other entrepreneurs to get engaged with new opportunities.

Jonathan will be in San Francisco this week for the BarCampAfrica meet-up at Google headquarters and the Social Capital Markets conference. Follow Jonathan on Twitter here.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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