The U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok, the immensely popular short-form video app owned by China’s ByteDance, has sent shockwaves through the tech industry,…
M-Pesa’s rollercoaster ride
M-Pesa, the world-famous mobile payment system, has effectively become a type of credit card for poor communities in East Africa. The payment system has…
Q&A: Jon Gosier on crowdsourcing and the ‘Silicon Valley of Africa’
Jon Gosier is one of the most impressive figures from the African technology scene to make it internationally. He is a TedX senior fellow,…
Exploring Africa’s open data
I recently discovered Afrographique, a site that does data visualisations on African data. It’s done by Ivan Colic, a South African designer, as a…
Fibre to the home: lessons from Kenya
With i3 Africa’s announcement earlier this month that fibre to the home was finally going to be a reality for South Africans, I thought…
