How Africa’s Tech Generation Is Changing the Continent
One day in 2004, in the Kenyan farming village of Engineer—so named because an Englishman once ran a mechanical repair shop there—a slight and nearsighted [read more…]
One day in 2004, in the Kenyan farming village of Engineer—so named because an Englishman once ran a mechanical repair shop there—a slight and nearsighted [read more…]
Most of Europe’s birds head south each year around September to escape the northern winter. Some species only migrate as far south as southern Europe. [read more…]
Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers of innovation. [read more…]
Radio Mwana aims to empower the province’s indigenous people by training pygmy teenagers as youth reporters MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters [read more…]
Humans have done a poor job of equipping the majority of our seven billion peers to contribute meaningfully toward our collective future. As a result, [read more…]
When young people started mobilising online against Togo’s president, the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder [read more…]
Digital payments are helping make off-grid power sources like solar and wind more economically viable DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When [read more…]
Software giant plans to capitalise on business demand for its cloud services in Africa by offering users access to locally hosted Azure and Office 365 [read more…]
The head of the AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, wants to connect 75 million people with off-grid-systems. But he still thinks, that Africa has to use all [read more…]
‘Silicon Savannah’ is refocusing on profit and revenues, going beyond social activism NAIROBI, Kenya — After a decade of buzz that brought bold headlines but [read more…]
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