“Africa’s Bill Gates” Launches ShopAfrica53, A Continental Enterprise
Tall and well-built, cheerful with an appearance of nonchalance, the man Inc. Magazine described as Africa’s Bill Gates is a man with a few tricks up his sleeve – as you might expect. After making his fortune with an enterprise-software company, Herman Chinery-Hesse reached higher, creating a company with a dual goal: helping the continent’s SMBs sell their products [...]
Read MoreTrustAfrica Creates Project to Support Innovation in African Education
Innovation is a concept spreading across the continent of Africa. TrustAfrica is working on a project called “The Learning Innovation Fund” to financially support local organizations in Senegal, Malli, Uganda, and Kenya to help improve literacy and numeracy skills through mobile libraries and other innovative learning approaches. TrustAfrica is a public foundation that strives to secure [...]
Read MoreApple Devices Winning Big in the Middle East and North Africa
Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are huge in the Middle East and North Africa, where they account for 55 percent of mobile internet traffic, according to a new survey by Dubai-based Effective Measure. The iPhone and iPad in particular are doing well, splitting top device honors among the countries covered in the study. During the [...]
Read MoreSolar-Powered, Wired School Brings Learning to Rural Africa
With all the technology available in the modern world, it can be hard to believe that there are still places without consistent access to electricity. But fewer than 25 percent of residents of rural African villages have power. For students, that means that sitting in a dark classroom without air conditioning, or under a tree, [...]
Read MoreKenya Lifts Itself Up By Its Tech Bootstraps
As many African countries struggle to achieve widespread economic growth and to escape from just being raw agricultural and mineral producers, change is occurring in Kenya, home to East Africa’s largest economy. There, information technology is being used as a springboard for growth. One aspect of that drive isKonza Technology City. The ground breaking for the [...]
Read MorePost Arab Spring, African Startups Should Be Next in Line for Attention
In Accra, the capital of Ghana, it’s not about who you know, what you know, which member’s club you belong to or even which school you used to go to. It’s all about which church you belong to. Ghana is nearly 70% Christian and on Sundays anybody who is anybody heads off to church, not [...]
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