Apps
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3.4KCrowd sourced app to help save lives in Africa
How do you improve health care delivery in Nigeria and Africa? Using mobile of course. This is the vision of Chukwuemeka Onyenwe, CEO and...
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App uses voice to connect teachers and students in Africa
Delivering education across Africa and rural areas is a major challenge, however mobile entrepreneurs are coming up with new ways to overcome...
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Mobile start-up Tranzit moving Lagos
Lagos traffic is legendary and booking taxi’s can be a risky business with many unregulated drivers. Tranzit is a new mobility start-up...
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Uganda: Android app launched to help reduce crime
Askari means the police in Swahili, but often if you call in an emergency the overstretched police don’t actually come in Uganda....
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South Africa’s top mobile apps
Mobithinking Global’s mobile statistics predicts that by 2017 there could be 200 billion app downloads. Although African countries have been slow when...
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African tech start-up ‘Over’ wins the ‘World’s Best Start-Up’ award
Over – an IOS app that allows users to add artistic text and artwork to user- generated photos -has won the award...
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Uganda: Mobile app helping to fight one of Africa’s biggest killers
Africa is great at utilising inventions from other parts of the world and harnessing them to make more relevant solutions and products....
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Kenya: Plantwise app gives farmers help for crop troubles
Plantwise has launched an app in Kenya that helps to improve world food security and the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries...
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KENYA: Road safety app aims to change transport in Africa
For Kamau Nyabwengi and his partner Job Mwaura, the solution to Kenya’s and to some extent, Africa’s challenges in transport, lies in...
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4.8KSouth Africa: Snapscan app to make payments cashless
Stellenbosch start-up SnapScan, which won the South African app of the year award, allows independent retailers and big chains to accept in-store...
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Android wearable launched by Google
Google has just launched a version of its Android operating system designed specifically for wearable devices.
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Nigeria: DevCon Alpha $300,000 Developer Contest
Mobile Monday Nigeria and local payment providers in Nigeria have launched a developer contest aimed at driving adoption of payment apps with...
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Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Goes Mobile
Mirroring the popularity of smartphones and tablets in the workplace, Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platform, is moving into...
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Rwanda: Youth Connekt apps challenge
Rwanda’s Ministry of Youth and ICT, and the UNDP, in close collaboration with Motorola Solutions, will power a Mobile App Challenge that...
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apeApp launched at Mobile East Africa
The apeAPP, an innovative mobile phone application that offers the public direct access to field projects that protect chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and...
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3.5KGoogle Developer Group Meetup at iHUB Nairobi
Intel plans to help the local app development community in Nairobi to understand the market in which they are operating in, identifying...
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“The world’s most influential expert in mobile” to address Mobile East Africa 2014
World-renowned mobile expert Tomi Ahonen has been confirmed to deliver a special address during the Mobile East Africa 2014 main conference on...
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Kenya: Mobile East Africa 2014 this February
Appsafrica.com is a proud media partner of Mobile East Africa 2014, the fourth East African edition of the most progressive and interactive...
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Nigerian traffic…there is an app for that
Anyone involved in the mobile and tech scene in Africa has visited Lagos, the new hotbed of the Nigerian tech and home...
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Kenyan app developer wins Appstar Challenge
Kenyan app Automs.gs has won the 2013 Appstar Challenge – a partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone designed to give support mobile app...
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Nigeria: NOKIA Nigeria to launch new Eskimi App
Eskimi, one of the largest social media and entertainment platforms counting 14 million members, partnered with NOKIA to launch a new Eskimi...
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New Hope For HIV/AIDS Orphans In Africa using technology
SAP AG has contributed technology and education-related donations to Young Heroes, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that supports HIV/AIDS orphans. This donation coincides...
