Jon Gosier's excellent African Tech blog, AppAfrica (African IT News & Culture) has two "top ten" posts, "Who's Blogging About Africa Tech"and the other "Top Ten Social Entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter". Jon gives the name, location and why we should follow. I am already following /sbramley who tweets from the field on water for people from Uganda and then there is /maratriangle who is a conservationist working in Massai Maria, Kenya. Why I particularly like these two Twitters is they are "action" based posting from the field. Mara Triange which is written by Joseph Kimojino recently twittered about a fund raising campaign for a toilet in a Massai vilage. With over 2,000 followers raising $200 should not have been a problem. It's also great to see so many people following the work of people on the ground. Also worth following is Jon himself, @jongos and the blog @appfrica.

Who's blogging African technology? The usual suspects are listed but here are 3 that are new to me:

This multi-author site features interesting reviews of pan-African startups.

Sample Content - Log your trips & keep track of distances traveled via SMS

Project Diaspora

I love the writing style of this one which offers a tongue-in-cheek look at various current events while still being accurate and insightful. I love their use of colloquial language and slang right along heavy tech babble.

Sample Content - Google’s O3B Networks versus EASSy. Fight!

Tech Masai

When TM has an opinion he doesn’t hold back! It’s that kind of candidness that make his reviews of African startups entertaining.

Sample Content - Profile: Bundublog

iRevolution comments on a new iniative to investigate media freedom across the world. Global Internet Freedom Index, (IGIF) will start with a 15 country pilot study covering the following:

The index is comprised of three general themes, each of which includes a number of (weighted) sub-indicators. The key components of the themes below is access to technology and the free flow of information/content.

1. Obstacles to access
2. Limits on content and communication
3. Violation of individual online rights

One of the sub-indicators, for example, focuses on activism in order to capture local resistance and activism in addition to government restrictions.

Finaly some new ideas on remittances "The Diaspora Gives Back" Mandeep Hotha suggests going further than the personal onto the community and further than the financial to skils, knowledge and talent and even democracy?