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Popular Agri-Tech Startup In Kenya, FarmDrive Seals Newest Funding Round
Agri-tech startup in Kenya, FarmDrive has gotten access to more finance as its operations recently faced expansion to make provision for 3 million ...
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Africa sees new Investment Opportunities as Ethiopia’s telecom sector opens up
Telecom, media and tech investment and consolidation activity in Africa is predicted to reach a record high for 2019 as a number of ...
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Are you Young, African and Innovative Entrepreneur? Apply for the US$100,000 Anzisha Prize
The Anzisha Prize program which is a partnership between African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation has just launched the call for 2019 applications. ...
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How Agritech Is Changing India And The World
Technology has aided farmers get a more effective market access and a grater selling price, with adequate initiatives, and it can still do ...
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Why Tech Hubs Are Developing In Africa
Going by the recent report by GSMA, 128 tech hubs have kick-started their operations across Africa since 2016. Comparing with the recent reports ...
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Digital Afrique Telecom (DAT) launches a smart card and ticketing system in Ivory Coast
Digital Afrique Telecom (DAT)announced the successful launch of a Smart Card and Ticketing system to enable Ivorian public transport users to board over ...
Blockchain
What To Look Out For In South African Fintech This Year
TymeBank, BankZero and Discovery Bank being introduced will definitely rejuvenate the industry and ensure customers have better choices to make. It should also ...
Blockchain
Expert views on how digital learning will aid education and employment system
Technology has changed the way we acquire education degrees. According to our research and online interviews, experts believe that many employers pay more ...
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FCMB Launches Hub One in Lagos,Nigeria
The Nigerian Tech industry has grown in leaps and bounds over the years. Many innovative ideas, platforms and more have been developed, ...
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How Technology can drive Agriculture in Africa
Africa with all it’s potentials in Agriculture still has low yields. According to Debisi Araba, Regional Director for Africa at the international center for ...
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AIMS launches applications for second intake of African Master’s in Machine intelligence
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) recently launched applications for the second intake of its unique African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI), ...
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Andela Secures $100M Series D Investment
Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers, today announced the completion of a $100M Series D funding. The ...
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Ethiopia to host 2020 World Economic Forum
Ethiopia to host 2020 World Economic Forum.This was announced during a meeting today between the Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed and Prof ...
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African Development Bank approves $25 million Equity Investment Fund for Renewable Energy Projects in Africa
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an equity investment of up to US$ 25 million in ARCH ...
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CSquared envisions ‘Fiberising’ Africa through affordable broadband internet connectivity
CSquared , a pan-african broadband infrastructure provider that enables ISPS and MNOs to provide high quality broadband through shared infrastructure, has spelt out its ...
Events
Information and Data Analytics Foundation (iDAF) Conference Holds in Lagos,Nigeria
Picture: Mr .Theo Medeiros,President iDAF Information and Data Analytics Foundation (iDAF) has announced plans to host a three-day Big Data and Business Analytics Conference ...
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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 Holds in Lagos, Sponsored by Facebook
In line with its commitment to growing Africa’s technology start-up ecosystem and its passion for developing diverse, young talent, Facebook is returning as ...
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GE Nigeria launches e-learning portal at Lagos Garage Week 2018
In line with its commitment to skills development and the empowerment of entrepreneurs in Nigeria, GE, the world’s premier digital industrial company, yesterday launched ...
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24 fast-growing African companies selected for the ‘DealRoom’ at Africa 2018 in Egypt
24 fast-growing African companies have been selected to win a place in the DealRoom to be held at the Africa Forum 2018 on ...
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Apply for £1 million Funding at the Wellcome Innovator Awards for Digital Technologies
Apply for £1 million Funding at the Wellcome Innovator Awards for Digital Technologies.The award for Digital Technologies are open to researchers who are developing ...
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Nigerian Health Startup SonoCare gets up to $250,000 in Funding from Gray Matters Capital coLABS
Picture R-L shows: Ms Vaishali Nitturkar, Founder, The Gyan Tree presenting Award to Dr. Enokela Owoicho Moses for Best Innovation in Healthcare (SonoCare) ...
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Mastercard Foundation Creates a $2M fund to Support Social Entrepreneurship
The Mastercard Foundation today announced a new fund that will enable young changemakers to seed and kick-start promising social ventures and community projects, ...
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The Government of Rwanda and Alibaba Group Enter into Agreements to Promote Rwanda’s Economic Development
Pics shows Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Jack Ma, Alibaba Group, Executive Chairman during the official launch of the Electronic World Trade ...
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Temenos establishes South African “Bank of the Future” Think-Tank
Temenos , the banking software company today announced the launch of its South African “Bank of the Future” Think-Tank. The venture, which involves ...
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WHO Africa Innovation Challenge Calls for New Solutions to Improve Health in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region has launched the first WHO Africa Innovation Challenge calling for health innovations with the ...
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Africa Investment Forum:Mara announces first African-made smartphone
African high-tech player Mara on Friday announced the production of their newest product the Maraphone – the first made-in-Africa, full-scale smartphone, soon to ...
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The future of trade in Africa: Leapfrogging towards Africonomics
We predict Africa’s digital-enabled commerce landscape will change drastically over the next decade – as a fragmented sphere with wanting customer experience meets ...
Events
Digital Lab Africa:3rd Edition to kick off in Johannesburg
Digital Lab Africa (DLA) will launch its 3rd edition at DISCOP market in Johannesburg (14-16 November 2018).On November 15th (11am, SA time), Digital ...
Blockchain
The Blockchain underlying technology explained
In our previous post, we wrote about a broad overview of what blockchain is and its technicality guide. Today, I will list and ...
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AIMS launches novel masters in machine intelligence
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) launched its African Masters in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) at its AIMS Rwanda Campus in partnership with ...