Fake news is not just a Western problem
While everyone knows about Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages [read more…]
While everyone knows about Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages [read more…]
Currency depends on trust and confidence. Years of economic crises in Zimbabwe have left all three in short supply, spurring a boom in “mobile money” [read more…]
Charles Rotimi first realized the future was passing him by around 2005. The Human Genome Project had recently finished spelling out an entire set of [read more…]
A Ugandan inventor has won a major prize for a device which tests for malaria without drawing blood. Brian Gitta, 24, won the Royal Academy [read more…]
African countries should be nervous about the big technology companies sweeping through their economies, knocking out established businesses and crushing startups before they have had [read more…]
With just a blackboard and a talent for drawing, a Ghanaian teacher has explained in detail to his students the secrets of Microsoft Word, earning [read more…]
Kenya wants to go nuclear. Since 2012, Nairobi has been talking the talk and walking the walk. It has engaged the International Atomic Energy Agency [read more…]
Businesses within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) could save up to $450 million in clearance documentation once the bloc adopts blockchain [read more…]
A new scheme aims to lighten the lives of millions who live without electricity, with the promise of a possible 6% return Now would you [read more…]
AGADEZ, Niger — Beyond the sign reading “Military Zone,” beyond the olive-green Humvees patrolling near a security tower, rows of tan tents stretch across the [read more…]
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