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Wed, April 3rd 2013, 12:07 · Richard Cutcher

SA investor environment can be improved – shadow finance minister

Tim Harris MP, the Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow finance minister, has described current business regulation as “outrageous” when compared to the rest of Africa. → Read more
Fri, March 1st 2013, 15:41 · Igor Hobotov

Q&A: Obi Asika speaks to HumanIPO post-SMWLagos2013

On the final day of Social Media Week Lagos, 2013, HumanIPO caught up with chief organiser and founder of Dragon Africa Obi Asika on how he thought Africa’s first attempt at the event went and his hopes for the future. → Read more
Sat, February 2nd 2013, 16:32 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan media spearheads development of apps for “better society”

Three media organisations in Kenya are on the frontline of hosting apps created from the open data Initiative, launched by the government in July 2011. → Read more
Fri, November 16th 2012, 08:09 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan developers take advantage of Windows 8

Microsoft’s next generation OS Windows 8 was officially launched in Kenya Thursday, even as Kenyan apps developers stole the show displaying their innovations for the new version. → Read more
Thu, November 15th 2012, 11:28 · Nanine Steenkamp

Africa’s hope lies in creative innovation, says Marlon Parker

African creativity points to a hopeful future for technological advances, according to the founder of a global social enterprise community. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd 2012, 08:05 · Gythan Munga

Upcoming African Startup Events, 3-11 November

Africa has become a hot-bed for technology investments, startup events and hackathons are now being held weekly across the continent to find the best innovations. Here’s everything you need to know about upcoming technology events in South Africa and Kenya in a week. → Read more
Fri, September 14th 2012, 05:00 · Gythan Munga

Upcoming African Startup Events, 17-23 September

Whether you're looking for investment or going to meet people, events are the best place to do so and thus, here’s everything you need to know about upcoming technology events in Kenya and South Africa in a week. → Read more
Fri, September 7th 2012, 09:58 · Dan Sudi

Kenya ICT board and KITOS partners with AITEC Africa

The Kenya’s information and technology pioneering group Kenya ICT Board and the latest Kenya IT and Outsourcing Services (KITOS) have partnered with the giant technology event organizer AITEC Africa to be in charge of East Africa ICT Summit with Kenya as the host country. → Read more
Tue, August 7th 2012, 04:09 · HumanIPO

Hacks/Hackers Nairobi chapter is launched

Hacks/Hackers is an international journalism organisation working in several countries under affiliate country chapters. → Read more
Fri, August 3rd 2012, 13:46 · HumanIPO

Developers in South Africa get down for a 48-hour hack

This weekend in Cape Town, South Africa a team of hackers will compete for R25,000 ($3,500) in the first-ever Code4Democracy Hackathon. → Read more
Wed, June 27th 2012, 08:07 · Elly Okutoyi

Huduma Kenya, Kenyan government’s service delivery portal unveiled

Kenya’s government has launched a new portal to improve transparency and accountability in public service delivery. → Read more
Thu, April 26th 2012, 09:18 · HumanIPO

Kenya’s Ufahamu to represent Africa at space apps challenge

Kenya’s Ufahamu will battle for the overall global title of Space Apps Challenge, an international competition that joins over 2,000 participants across the world in creating spacecraft-related applications. → Read more
Wed, April 25th 2012, 15:33 · HumanIPO

Kenyan climate app aiming at top World Bank prize

Positioned four out of 51 submissions in World Bank’s “Apps for Climate Competition,” a Kenyan startup called Third Dimension has vowed to take the top prize. → Read more
Thu, April 19th 2012, 11:49 · Vincent Matinde

Google Does More with Maps and Graphs in Kenya

Google has improved the content on Kenya’s Open Date initiative allowing over 31,000 primary and 6,900 secondary schools to be searchable via Google Maps for Kenya. → Read more
Fri, April 6th 2012, 14:31 · Vincent Matinde

$55.1 million grant a boost to Kenyan ICT, says World Bank

The World Bank has served Kenya a grant of US$55.1 million (Ksh4 billion) to scale up the sprawling mobile and web development sector. → Read more
Fri, January 13th 2012, 11:50 · Gythan Munga

African Financial Mapping System CrowdPesa Now Launched

PesaPay launched in December last year a Mobile location-based app to map and track financial data and information in Kenya. The application, dubbed as Crowdpesa, provides access to information about people, entities and financial services located in various parts of the world. → Read more
Fri, December 12th 2014, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju

USAID, Orange announce mHealth partnership for Africa

A new alliance to develop innovations in mobile health (mHealth) in Africa has been announced at the Global mHealth Forum by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and telecoms company Orange. → Read more
Mon, November 17th 2014, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju

Online privacy is the new luxury – Victoria Milan

Sigurd Vedal, founder and CEO of Victoria Milan has described online privacy as the new luxury. Vedal said this while commenting on the report of a survey that revealed over 80% of individuals seeking extramarital affairs are afraid that their device's data will end up in the wrong hands. → Read more
Tue, October 28th 2014, 18:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenyan startup Echo Mobile partners IBM, Airtel to fight Ebola outbreak

IBM Research Africa, Airtel and Kenya's Echo Mobile have launched a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to communicate their issues and concerns directly to the government; a donation of IBM Connections technology in Nigeria to strengthen the Lagos State government’s preparedness for future disease outbreaks; and a global platform for sharing Ebola-related open data. → Read more
Tue, October 28th 2014, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Cyberoam launches CR10iNG for small offices

Leading network security appliances provider Cyberoam, has launched CR10iNG, “the fastest & most affordable UTM (Unified Threat Management)” appliance for SOHO/ROBO markets that is expected to extend enterprise level network security to small and branch offices, making them future ready for security needs. → Read more