Sep 19, 2019
More than 1 100 Kenyan teachers completed their digital skills training in August ahead of this year’s Africa Code Week (ACW), which will take place across the continent in October. During the second half of August, teachers attended ACW Train-the-Trainer...
Sep 17, 2019
The Government of Rwanda will host the African Drone Forum 2020 (ADF 2020) and its associated flying competitions in February 2020. The announcement also confirmed commitment from the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, along with UKAID/DfID, Danida, the Republic...
Sep 12, 2019
Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have launched the Vodacom Digital Accelerator, a programme that intends to help early-stage and growth-stage technology startups become profitable and revenue generating businesses. The new programme, which will run yearly, aims at...
Sep 12, 2019
The US Department of Commerce, on behalf of the president of the US, has reappointed Takreem El Tohamy, IBM’s GM for the Middle East and Africa, to the US President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). The PAC-DBIA was established in...
Sep 11, 2019
DYDX, a digital transformation practice based in Cape Town, partnered with Beninese-French visionary Bola Bardet to create and launch Susu Healthcare. The first-of-its-kind full-service digital healthcare company was taken from concept to launch in less than 18...
Sep 10, 2019
There is thinking and then there is blue-sky thinking. The latter is defined by how industry and individual can look at a situation through the eyes of what could be, or what might be achieved. The former should be defined by innovation and opportunity. When it comes...
