With youth unemployment above 60 percent, South Africa is betting on digital skills to drive inclusive growth. Here is how MICT SETA is positioning the next generation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
MXit primarily used by adults finds SA social media study
No longer the forgotten step-child of South African internet activity, a study by Fuseware and World Wide Worx has found that along with e-mail,…
Forget the rest of the world, Apple’s real future is in the BRICS
It’s strange how we all get caught up in the Silicon Valley (and Alley) hype. If a company’s product fails in the US, it…
Why Kenya’s M-Pesa won’t work anywhere else
It’s the runaway success story: From a standing start just four years ago, over 15-million Kenyans now use the M-Pesa mobile money service to…
What lies ahead: Online mobile payments and Africa’s small merchants
I’ve been pondering small business, payments and incentives quite a bit recently. Partly because of the web startups I’ve been seeing crop up locally,…
