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…
How tech could help Africa develop a knowledge-based economy
According to the World Economic Forum Competitiveness Report 2011 – 2012 there are three stages of economic development by which one can classify the world’s economies:…
How do we nurture Africa’s next great innovator?
Globally, the discussion around innovation has been one of great interest especially in the wake of troubling economic times in the recent past. The discussion…
What gaps need to be plugged in the African startup ecosystem?
Africa’s startup ecosystem is in a state of flux. These are the formative days, the few million years post big-bang, if you would. So…
What kind of disruption does Africa’s tech scene really need?
What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean…
How M-Pesa disrupts entire economies
Back in 2011, I was asked to give my thoughts on what I thought would trend in mobile within between then and 2020. One…
Four things Africa has to get right to guarantee future innovation
Fail to innovate and you will simply be left behind. As I previously noted, this is especially the case for the African continent. Africa…
Necessity is the mother of invention: Why utility beats ‘cool’ in Africa
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and indeed that could perfectly describe Africa where it comes to innovation, particularly on…
How mobile money is bridging the gap to online payments in Kenya
Mobile Money has come a long way in the last few years. Kenyan mobile network operator, Safaricom, introduced its MPesa service in 2007 and…
5 Cool African eCommerce websites
There was a time when Africa’s eCommerce platforms were so few in number as to be negligible. The ever increasing penetration of bandwidth onto…
The cheetah generation is using social media to revolutionise the continent
In 2008, an article on socialmediatoday.com titled “Why Social Media in South Africa Will Fail”, made a rather daring assertion: …social media and social…
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