In the race to connect the unconnected, Africa has often been left at the margins of global capital flows. But that narrative is starting…
Interview: PesaPal’s Agosta Liko on African mobile payment solutions
Agosta Liko, CEO of PesaPal, relocated to Kenya from the US to start Verviant, a software development company in Nairobi. Three years later, the…
What makes a Twitter user influential?
I’m a big fan of Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab, and the work of his team. HP has been applying…
How the social web saved a life during the Haiti earthquakes
On the day the earthquake hit, well-known Haitian radio personality Carel Pedre was driving his car along the streets of the capital when the…
Kenya’s mobile money innovation boom
Kenya is quickly gaining a competitive advantage in the mobile payments space. Led by mobile operator giant Safaricom with their Mpesa product, the market…
