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Wed, May 2nd, 12:22 · Vincent Matinde

Kipokezi App Challenge Finalists Named

ForgetMeNot Africa has a announced the finalists for the Kipokezi App Challenge Hackathon slated for May 4, 2012, in Nairobi, Kenya. → Read more
Wed, May 2nd, 11:55 · HumanIPO

Africa’s first ever online university begins operation

Upset by disparities in Africa’s education system, Gossy Ukanwoke, a Nigerian entrepreneur, has come up with Africa’s first fully-fledged online distance-learning platform called Beni American University. → Read more
Tue, May 1st, 09:30 · HumanIPO

NACA and Airtel Nigeria partner in a welfare scheme

Airtel Nigeria has partnered with the National Agency for the Control of AIDs (NACA) to form an information and counselling centre aimed at fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the west African country. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 18:40 · HumanIPO

Zimbabwe’s leading papers go SMS and USSD to cut operation cost

The Herald, a top daily in Zimbabwe, and The Sunday Mail, government owned weekly, are set to go SMS and USSD starting today. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 17:45 · Elly Okutoyi

More flex for Kenyan hospitals expected as record digitalisation starts

The Kenyan government is looking to computerise the country’s entire health records in a bid to make health care more affordable and easily accessible, says Ministry of Information and Communication permanent secretary, Dr Bitange Ndemo. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 17:05 · HumanIPO

Connected Africa Forum scheduled for May in Jo’burg

The Connected Africa Forum, which incorporates mobile money, mobile health and mobile agriculture, is slated for May 14 in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 16:33 · HumanIPO

More Ugandans taking to ICT to promote democracy

More Ugandans are now embracing ICT to promote democracy and good governance, report says. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 14:20 · HumanIPO

Njorku upgrade to barge search for vocations in Africa

Njorku, Africa’s first ever job search engine, late last month released the latest version of its search engine called Njorku 2.0 in Doula, Cameroon. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 12:40 · Elly Okutoyi

Safaricom and Airtel join forces to hedge fibre installation cost

In one of the rarest partnerships among stiff competitors, Kenya’s Safaricom and Airtel are set to lay a multi-million shilling fiber network, in a bid to reduce expenses incurred in paying third party companies for wholesale internet. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 12:31 · HumanIPO

After 3-year wait, Ghana’s Glo mobile finally launches

Glo Mobile finally launched into commercial service yesterday after about three years of rescheduling. → Read more
Mon, April 30th, 11:48 · Vincent Matinde

High road carnage inspires a new app set to save lives

A startup in Kenya has developed an application that would sensitize and help drivers in case of road accidents in a country where 80 percent of the 13,000 road accidents, a year, are caused by human error including reckless and drunken driving, according to Kenyan government statistics. → Read more
Sat, April 28th, 12:40 · HumanIPO

USAID and m:Lab rally pushes for phone-based farming apps

USAID and m:Lab East Africa late last February started a focus group dubbed Wireless Wednesdays to bring farmers and IT developers together in a setting that would push for innovation of agricultural-specific phone-based solutions in the country. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 17:55 · HumanIPO

Guest Post: Who deserves control of .africa gTLD?

Basing on the possibility that .Africa (dotAfrica) Top Level Domain (gTLD) could soon be introduced, challenges including who should administer its registration await its penetration into the African market. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 17:45 · HumanIPO

Firm Trains 50 Software Engineers from Makerere University

ThoughtWorks, an international IT consultancy firm with a mission to revolutionize software creation, early this month trained software engineers at this year’s JAMS session at Uganda’s Makerere University. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 15:48 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s cocoa farms lined up as Hershey’s next GPS project beneficiary

The innovative GeoT GPS process, according to the Hershey Company, will for the first time — in more than 130 years of cocoa farming in Ghana — help more than 1,000 participating farmers size their cocoa farms accurately. The new GPS programme, which is part of Hershey Learn to Grow programme, will use GPS mapping […] → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 14:55 · Vincent Matinde

More African startups taking to Google App Engine

Top developers in Africa are turning to Google App Engine to develop their software on PCs and mobile gadgets, Google Africa reported. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 14:15 · HumanIPO

New app makes business registration hassle free

A new mobile app, dubbed Doing Biz, is set to reduce the period of time entrepreneurs take to register businesses in Kenya. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 12:48 · HumanIPO

Kenya’s communication regulator puts off fake handset switch off

Kenya’s communication commission (CCK) has for the third time put off a campaign to switch off fake mobile phones that more than 2.3 million people in the country are said to use, to August this year. According to the regulator, this will be the final postponement. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 12:03 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya drops in world ICT Ranking

Kenya has dropped in world ICT ranking by 14 places to position 93 following this year’s survey by World Economic Forum and INSEAD School of Business. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 11:07 · HumanIPO

Diaspora Africans to pay for services at home via Willstream

Willstream has opened offices in Dakar, Senegal, as its first African headquarters, with plans to open other centres across the continent by the end of this year. → Read more