Google will be supporting this year’s South African electoral process to ensure fair play against misinformation and disinformation. While technology maintains a crucial role…
10 African tech startups worth watching
It’s practically a tradition to follow a post like this with a good old-fashioned flame-war where everyone reveals his or her own sense of…
Undersea cables set to launch African bandwidth explosion
Many years ago, I worked for UUNET Internet Africa in South Africa. I remember sitting in the Operations room and looking at an international…
Africa’s mobile operators need to be more disruptive
Generally speaking, in the 90s, Africa’s mobile network operators (MNOs) were highly disruptive. In this last decade however, they have continued to decrease in…
The subtle condescension of ‘ICT for development’
I have cognitive dissonance over the term “Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)”. This term, “ICT4D,” is confusing, hypocritical, and has a whiff…