Search results for "education"
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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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3.8KInnovationAfrica: the new digital skills outsourcing location
With ICT skills beginning to take on a prominent position in education agendas across Africa and the youthful population of Africa increasingly...
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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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Innovation
MTN Solution Space to boost innovation in Africa
The MTN Group and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) have announced a major new partnership to...
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Apps
Kenyan start-up Safari Tales to educate kids with new app
When Njeri Wangari’s daughter turned three years old, she realised she was losing interest in all the toys she had bought her....
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Innovation
Mobile money to drive financial inclusion in Nigeria
Back in 2012 a survey conducted by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFINA) indicated that 56.3 million adults, representing 64.1 per cent...
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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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3.3KGadgetsAfrica’s first low-power android desk-top
As technology advances many communities are still left out of the global village which is why there is a need for tailor-made...
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Apps
Nigerian subscribers to get free Ebola information on mobile
Airtel Nigeria in collaboration with Opera Software, has launched a free service for customers looking for information on the Ebola virus.
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Apps
Mobile survey app GeoPoll tracks African views
Global mobile surveying tool GeoPoll has been tracking the opinions of Africans over the ongoing US-Africa Leaders Summit, finding 37 per cent...
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Awards
Appwiz 2014 launched for Kenyan developers
Safaricom has launched the Appwiz Challenge for 2014 to identify Kenyan developers and drive new app development across all mobile platforms. The...
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2.5KAwardsNigerian start-ups top entries for Demo Africa 2014
DEMO Africa has released the names of the forty start-ups that have qualified to launch their product on the DEMO Africa stage...
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Awards
5 startups to win over $50,000 and VC training at PIVOT East
Five startups will win a combined total of over fifty thousand dollars in funding at the PIVOT East finalists conference. The five...
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Apps
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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2.4KNigeriaGrowing pains for Nigerian tech start-ups
Foreign investment became a lively topic of debate today at Mobile West Africa (#MWA2014), which is being held in Lagos, Nigeria this...
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Awards
PIVOT East 2014 Semi-finalists Announced
PIVOT East the startups competition geared towards nurturing the growing ICT talent in East Africa, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s competition....
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Tanzania
Last chance for East African students to join Intel program
Following the successful launch of the Intel Student Partner Program in Kenya, Intel is now opening up the opportunity for university students...
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Events
African blogger awards
Africa’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and influence through data analysis, are open to bloggers, Instagrammers,...
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Awards
Zambia: MTN Appathon competition
MTN Zambia has launched the MTN Appathon, a competition for computer application developers. It is aimed at exposing young developers and gives...
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Apps
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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Awards
MTN App Developer Challenge Winners
MTN Nigeria recently announced the winners of the App Developer Challenge that ran for 5 months. The Judges selected winners from all 6...
