Aug 6, 2018
SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) visited Botswana last week to facilitate Train-the-Trainer (TTT) workshops for teachers and youth. Taking place in the last week of July at various communities across the country, more than 1 000 participants received hands-on training on...
Aug 3, 2018
In Nigeria, a country of nearly 200-million people, 61% of the adult population is unbanked or underbanked. Fintech companies like Paylater represent an opportunity to get formal banking services in the hands of Nigerian consumers to provide liquidity for...
Aug 2, 2018
As the digital economy is all about data, Africa will need to develop its own data centre network to ensure data sovereignty, bandwidth and latency time, and bring back the IT load across the continent. Schneider Electric has committed to help its customers and...
Aug 1, 2018
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has launched a one-year intensive African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) in partnership with Facebook and Google. The master’s will begin this September at the AIMS-Rwanda campus in Kigali....
Aug 1, 2018
Uganda becomes the first African country to sign an agreement with the Regional Liquidity Support Facility (RLSF), a joint initiative of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI), a pan-African and multilateral guarantor and KfW with funding from German Ministry of...
Jul 31, 2018
Markets across Africa are already heavily investing in the future of cities, with figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasting spend on technologies that enable smart city initiatives will reach $1,26-billion in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) in...
