Orange recently launched its Orange Digital Centre in Tunis, Tunisia, to provide wide-ranging support for startups, including training young people in coding and providing more direct guidance, as well as startup acceleration and investment in early-stage companies...
29 Apr 2019
US-based real estate entrepreneur Rokelle Sun's philanthropic mission is to encourage young girls to pursue careers and success in the underrepresented fields, particularly in Africa, where she spent part of her childhood. She explains this, as well as her love of new experiences like aerophotography, and some of the highs and lows of her earlier career as a multilingual broadcast journalist...
Leigh Andrews 3 days ago
We chat with Grey Jabesi, an entrepreneur, Blockchain enthusiast, cryptocurrency evangelist, analyst, and investor based in Africa....
Evan-Lee Courie 20 May 2019
Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality in Africa...
Charles Onyango-Obbo 16 May 2019
Rwandan PaaS (platform as a service) startup Ared has marked its first international expansion by setting up 10 women-run 'smart business in a box' solar-powered kiosks in Uganda...
13 May 2019
The global number of successful retail chatbot interactions will reach 22 billion by 2023, up from an estimated 2.6 billion in 2019, as AI offers compelling new engagement solutions...
9 May 2019
The winners of the Digital Lab Africa Pitch competition have been announced and the 10 winners each receive R42,000 in cash and residence period in France...
6 May 2019
Technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform the hospitality and travel sectors...
2 May 2019
Data breaches and cyberattacks are unignorably on the rise and hackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated...
Simon McCullough 26 Apr 2019
Africa's digital revolution is transforming our economy at a record pace. Africa is home to the 10 fastest growing cities in the world, and for nearly a decade, we've had the world's fastest rate of internet adoption...
Magdi Amin 26 Apr 2019
Siemens has launched its Atlas of Digitalization, a new web-based application that reveals the readiness and potential of six major cities to embrace digitalisation...
24 Apr 2019
Cybersecurity incidents are gaining an increasingly high profile. In the past, these incidents may have been perceived primarily as a somewhat distant issue for organisations such as banks to deal with...
John McAlaney and Helen Thackray 24 Apr 2019
The recently concluded 10th World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum emphasised the importance of the WSIS Action Lines as a key United Nations framework for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals...
17 Apr 2019
MEST Africa and Microsoft announce 2019 Pan-African tech summit in Nairobi...
16 Apr 2019
Pan-African e-commerce platform, Jumia, has become the first African startup to list on the New York Stock Exchange...
15 Apr 2019
As the backbone of developing economies, agriculture not only serves to feed a nation but creates employment and, often, contributes significantly to the GDP...
11 Apr 2019
Alongside local African authorities, HP's ACF team have conducted two highly successful operations to stop the trade of counterfeit cartridges for HP printers across Uganda and Mozambique...
Daniëlle Kruger 4 Apr 2019
The application process for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) is now officially open to African entrepreneurs from all sectors, age groups, and countries in Africa...
29 Mar 2019
Transforming retail starts with the business model, not the technology...
Toros Esim 27 Mar 2019
When you design for mobile, consider who you're building for. For the small percentage with beautiful, high-end phones, or for 61% of the market?
Lauren Hartzenberg 22 Mar 2019
Africa is set to be the next big mobile market and the mobile economy is expected to generate more than $150 billion by 2022 to Africa's GDP...
Josephine Wawira 19 Mar 2019
Just what is the fourth industrial revolution? No really, what is it all about beyond the hype and jargon?
Garth Williams 11 Mar 2019
Paratus Africa has announced that it recently activated additional capacity between West Africa Undersea Cable System (WACS) and Lusaka, Zambia...
6 Mar 2019
Dawie Maree, Head of Information and Marketing for FNB Agriculture, says agricultural technology innovation is evolving at an unprecedented pace, leaving farmers with no choice but to adapt and reinvent themselves...
4 Mar 2019
How an American and Rwandan partnership brought the mythical 'Wakanda' to life by harnessing drone technology to deliver life-saving medical supplies...
Louise Marsland 1 Mar 2019
While the telco industry may have seen its traditional revenue streams decline further in 2018...
Mariam Abdullahi 27 Feb 2019
South African finance minister Tito Mboweni, during the 2019 Budget Speech, says budget spending has to focus on getting the country ready for technology...
20 Feb 2019
The past year has been an important period in the timeline of the data economy...
Kate Mollett 20 Feb 2019
Augmented analytics, continuous intelligence and explainable artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top trends in data and analytics technology...
20 Feb 2019
It is hard to believe that billions of connected devices and sensors - the Internet of Things - are forecast to be worth a staggering $US94bn by 2025 in the retail sector...
19 Feb 2019
Craig Johnston, marketing manager at Seidor Bluekey, says that data and knowledge are not the same thing...
Craig Johnston 13 Feb 2019
