F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
11 lessons on innovation from Nobel laureates [#IntelIsef]
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Built in Africa: Meet the young African scientists and engineers competing at Intel’s ISEF
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When the world ends, zip ties and duct tape will save you [#IntelISEF]
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#BringBackOurGirls: Nigerians use social media to highlight terror problem
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Uber is providing free rides to SA voters come election day
Tech savvy cab service Uber has decided to provide South Africans headed out to voting stations on 7 May with free rides. According to…
Built in Africa: RLabs is using tech to restore our faith in humanity
Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that hail from the continent and empower its citizens. Social entrepreneurship is becoming a key…
#someonetellsouthafrica: South Africans side with Kenyans in Twitter ‘war’
Yesterday South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula sparked a Twitter tiff when he made some less than savoury comments about Kenya…
It’s official, Nokia has got a new daddy… I mean owner
It is official, straight out of Redmond. Nokia Devices and Services business now has a new owner. Microsoft’s protracted acquisition of Nokia has been…
Built in Africa: Shaking Sun’s Akaliza Keza Gara on using tech to tell African stories
Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that are born on the continent and empower its citizens. In this, the fourth instalment…
Facebook sucks at innovation and its products fail a lot
In a few short weeks millions, okay thousands, of Facebook developers will descend on San Francisco to attend the social network’s famed developer conference…
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