Search results for "health"
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2.1KEast AfricaDigging for data on Africa’s climate future
Efforts to digitise old records and gather new data will improve local climate modelling explains Lou Del Bello from SciDevNet. The cardboard...
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4.3KAppsFacebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing Africans online
Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give people access...
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3.3KAppsAppsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 open for applications
The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 celebrate the enormous growth in mobile, technology and entrepreneurship in Africa. Innovation knows no borders and Appsafrica.com...
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Apps
SMS service seeks to reduce baby mortality in Africa
Most tech start-ups feel pressure in delivering a good experience for users but none probably as important as this one. “I wish...
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Apps
Social fitness app to encourage fitness in Africa
Bosun Tijani a fitness enthusiast loved teams sports and keeping fit socially, however having lived in various cities he found that moving...
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3.2KAppsTalkingBookz to disrupt traditional book publishing in Africa and beyond
Nigeria’s first audiobook online store and publisher, TalkingBookz provides users with unlimited downloads to 3000+ audiobooks including many international bestsellers.
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Ghana
MEST Incubator & Samsung partner in West Africa
Recognized as one of Fast Company’s Top 10 “Most Innovative Companies in Africa”, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced...
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Apps
Ghanian start-up wins the #MWA2015 App Developer Competition
The App Developer pitch final has just finished in Lagos and Suba has been voted the Mobile West Africa, App Developer 2015 winner.
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Apps
Vote in Apps Developer Competition Poll
Four start-ups from Nigeria and one from Ghana will today pitch at Mobile West Africa in Lagos to win the 2015 App Developer Competition which...
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East Africa
Affordability is holding back internet penetration in Africa
The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is the world’s broadest technology sector coalition. They want everyone, everywhere, to be able to access...
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Innovation
CcHub call for entrepreneurs
Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is a launch pad for start-ups, transforming ideas to sustainable ventures that solve real Nigerian problems. To date CcHub...
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Apps
Finalists for MWA2015 App Developer Competition announced
The application window for the MWA 2015 App Developer Competition supported by Appsafrica.com has now closed. There was a great response from...
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Awards
Big data innovation winners to combat African challenges
There is a tremendous opportunity in unlocking big data and utilising it alongside traditional data to reveal new insights that can help...
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Events
Start-ups applications for DEMO Africa 2015 now open
The application window for DEMO Africa 2015 has opened wide and entrepreneurs can now enter under 12 different categories. The application process...
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Events
Applications now open for the first Africa TechPitch LDN.
Africa TechPitch is an evening pitch event in London aimed at showcasing high-potential, high-impact, Africa-relevant startups, ideas and businesses.
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East Africa
Raspberry Pi helps drive education in Tanzania
Masekelo secondary school in Shinyanga, Tanzania has many challenges: there’s no electricity or water, so each pupil needs to collect 5 litres...
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Events
Day 4 of Social Media Week Lagos
Here’s the full schedule of today’s events at Social Media Week in Lagos
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Apps
Lack of trust hampering app downloads
Trust remains the largest single obstacle to growth in the mobile content and commerce industry with 40 per cent of people stating...
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3.3K2InnovationWant to become a software developer in Lagos?
Andela a new kind of academic experience in Lagos is looking for aspiring developers. It’s sort of like a university, except instead of...
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Apps
Facebook to launch free internet app in Kenya
Facebook revealed that it will launch the Internet.org app in Kenya later this week, marking the third country in Africa to get...
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Awards
Calling all African innovators for $150K IPA 2015 award
AIF announces 30-day extension for the US$ 150 000 IPA 2015 award – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for African innovators to take their...
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Apps
Mobile pregnancy tool kit to save African lives
Each year over eight million babies die during delivery or in the first week of life in developing countries according to UN....
