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…]
Technology
Why a proper record of birds in Africa is so important – for Europe
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…]
Somaliland’s voting technology shows how Africa can lead the world
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…]
Congo’s young pygmy reporters take to the airwaves to fight exclusion
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…]
Why Africa is the key to advancing human potential
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…]
No business, no boozing, no casual sex: when Togo turned off the internet
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…]
Mobile power payments and smart meters plug in Tanzanian homes
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…]
Microsoft Extends Cloud-Computing Arms Race to Africa
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 African Development Bank is leading in renewable energies
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…]
Kenya’s Tech Hub Gets a Makeover
‘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…]