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Fri, May 4th, 17:11 · HumanIPO

Five African nations form continent’s first ever ICT alliance

Five African Countries have rallied to form an alliance, called Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA), in a move aimed at bringing the continent’s ICT sector stakeholders together, to meet the social and economic growth, as well as find solutions to ICT challenges. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 16:45 · Elly Okutoyi

Ugandan school receives solar-powered equipment

The Intel Learning Series Alliance in partnership with Jasco, Custom Technologies and the Xavier Group, have delivered a completely solar-powered leaning initiative to Victorious Primary School in Uganda. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 16:30 · HumanIPO

ADB’s new card set to link Ghanians to global transactions

The Ghanaian Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) today launched a Visa classic card in an effort that would ensure its services become more accessible and convenient to its customers worldwide. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 14:15 · Vincent Matinde

Singapore woos Kenyan ICT firms

Kenyan ICT firms should look for opportunities beyond their borders, especially in Singapore. The statement came following an ICT meeting with Singapore representatives hosted by Kenya Information Technology and Outsourcing Society (KITOS) last week in Nairobi. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 13:30 · HumanIPO

Western union to introduce account-based money transfer in Africa

Western Union, a global leader in payment solutions, is now working with its existing banking agents in Africa to introduce account-based money transfer (ABMT) services set to leverage digital access channels available to the banks’ account-holders. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 12:36 · HumanIPO

Maghreb startup initiative seeks out Tunisia’s young developers

A regional competition aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in Maghreb, dubbed the Maghreb Startup Initiative (MSI), was yesterday launched in Tunis, Tunisia, by the Education for Employment (EFE) foundation and its partners. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 11:08 · Elly Okutoyi

Burundi readies for a fibre-optic cable connection

With the help of the World Bank, the government of Burundi has embarked on a 13000-kilometre fibre-optic project set to cover the capital Bujumbura, 17 provinces and the country's major borders. → Read more
Fri, May 4th, 09:50 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s Airtel and Faulu launch a phone-based loan app

Faulu Kenya, a micro finance institution in Kenya has partnered with Airtel, a mobile telephone company, to launch a new service called Kopa Chapaa aimed at advancing loan facilities via mobile phone. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 17:40 · Vincent Matinde

SA’s Datatec to acquire Australian data company

Datatec Limited, a South African ICT company, has agreed to acquire Australian data company called Corpnet through Logicalis, its subsidiary company. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 17:10 · Elly Okutoyi

Namibian government to offer free Internet to schools

The Namibian government has announced plans to have institutions of higher learning, state schools and health centres within the country access free Internet starting May 15th. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 16:16 · HumanIPO

Kenyan firms neglect blogging as promotional strategy, survey shows

A significant number of companies in Kenya have neglected the social networking platform with only 6 percent maintaining their blogs, survey by Interactive Concepts indicates. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 15:00 · Gythan Munga

Upcoming African Startup Events, 03 -11 May

Tech events are where investors, businesses and entrepreneurs do their bidding. Here’s a comprehensive schedule of upcoming events in South Africa, Kenya and Senegal in the next two weeks. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 14:30 · Vincent Matinde

Google Names Zeitgeist Young Minds Winners from Africa

Kenya’s Joel Mwale, 19, and Simeon Oriko, 23, both from Kenya, are among five contestants from Africa who have won the Zeitgeist Young Minds, a Google pioneered entrepreneurial competition. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 12:30 · HumanIPO

Startup develops cooking pot that charges phones

A startup has developed a thermoelectric generator that doubles up as a cooking vessel, dubbed powerPot, set to enable over 200 million people in Africa who live off the electric grid charge phones and other devices. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 10:30 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya’s president in praise of country’s ranking in social media use

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki yesterday praised the use of social networks in Kenya adding that the platform has enabled the country to take the leading positions in Africa when it comes to freedom of expression. → Read more
Thu, May 3rd, 09:06 · HumanIPO

Airtel’s Africa revenue up by 43.7 percent

Barely two years since Bharti Airtel spent some US$10.7 billion to purchase its African operations from Kuwait owned Zain, the company is coming strongly against African mobile service providers having increased its customer-base following the launching of operations in Rwanda in early March. → Read more
Wed, May 2nd, 16:20 · HumanIPO

Nokia and Nigeria’s ICT ministry partner to promote local developers

Nokia West Africa last week Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Federal Government of Nigeria to establish a mobile software laboratory in Nigeria. → Read more
Wed, May 2nd, 15:40 · HumanIPO

AfDB sets event to continue STI forum held last month

The African Development Bank has set up a 2-day workshop from 23 May set to follow up from the recommendations of the Science, Technology and Innovation in Action parallel session on “eLearning, mLearning, eHealth and mHealth” that stemmed from the First Africa Forum on Science Technology and Innovation (STI) held in Nairobi early last month. → Read more
Wed, May 2nd, 14:40 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s Chase Bank to launch interactive portal for SMEs

Chase Bank Kenya has announced plans to launch an interactive Web portal and Business Club dubbed Kilele Planet targeted at the bank's increasing SME customer-base. → Read more
Wed, May 2nd, 12:49 · HumanIPO

Amazon set to garner Africa’s incremental Internet users

Amazon Web Service (AWS), Amazon.com’s retail Internet arm, has launched a developer support office in Cape Town, South Africa, set to employ around 1400 people by December, from its base of about 50 engineers. → Read more