Events, Page 9
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Thu, May 29th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
SA, Nigerian apps win at Ericsson Application Awards
South Africa’s Team WorkMode and Nigeria’s Team SOP won first prize in the Student and Company categories respectively at the 2014 Ericsson Application Awards, beating off competition from 300 teams from 63 countries. → Read more
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Thu, May 29th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi
eLearning conference kicks off in Uganda
The eLearning Africa conference has kicked off in Kampala, Uganda, bringing together 1,500 participants and 300 speakers from the continent and the rest of the world to explore the latest innovations and ideas that are “opening frontiers to the future”. → Read more
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Wed, May 28th, 15:30 · Chris Udemans
Johannesburg to host first Startup Grind
Startup networking community Startup Grind will hosting its first event in Johannesburg, South Africa next month, following launches in Cape Town and Nairobi, Kenya. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Digital music distribution to eclipse physical distribution
The physical method of distributing music via CDs and cassettes will be soon be eclipsed by digital mechanisms such as streaming and downloads, according to Trenton Birch, Africa director at non-profit Bridges For Music. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 15:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
TechZim to host second Broadband Forum next week
TechZim has announced it will host its second Broadband Forum on Friday, June 6, focusing on the topic of broadband as an enabler of opportunities and development. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 13:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
PIVOT East announces finalists
PIVOT East has picked 25 East African startups as finalists for this year’s edition of the mobile startups event, offering them the chance to pitch to investors at the main conference in June. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 11:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Mistrust between actors and producers damaging Kenya’s movie industry
Kenya’s movie industry is not taking off as expected in part due to the lack of trust between producers and actors, a situation leading to both parties working independently and affecting the quality of production. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 09:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Musicians, movie producers urged to leverage internet for content
Musicians and movie producers have been urged to leverage the power of the internet, which boasts 29 million searches per minute, to showcase their work to their targeted audiences. → Read more
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Tue, May 27th, 06:00 · Chris Udemans
Snapplify reaches BookExpo Startup Challenge final
South African digital publishing startup Snapplify has been named a finalist at the BookExpo Startup Challenge in New York, competing against 17 others as the only African entry. → Read more
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Mon, May 26th, 18:30 · Chris Udemans
Mobile micro-polling platform wins GovHackSA
Team “Pulse”, developers of a mobile micro-polling platform, won the GovHackSA event, which took place in Cape Town over the weekend. → Read more
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Mon, May 26th, 10:45 · Gabriella Mulligan
Zuma appoints Cwele to run new telecoms department
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has announced Cabinet appointments for his second term in office, creating a new Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services with Dr Siyabonga Cwele at its helm. → Read more
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Fri, May 23rd, 10:30 · Chris Udemans
Mobile money not customer friendly
The current mobile money climate is not a customer friendly experience, according to Ruan Swanepoel, commercial manager of Tigo Pesa Tanzania. → Read more
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Fri, May 23rd, 09:00 · Chris Udemans
Rural Ugandan women relying on agents to make mobile transactions
Women in rural Uganda are relying on mobile money agents to make transactions for them, highlighting a lack of mobile and numerical literacy, according to Lisa Kienzle, mobile financial services programme director at the Grameen Foundation. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 16:30 · Chris Udemans
Safaricom’s M-Shwari has 7m subscribers
Over seven million subscribers are now using Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom’s microfinance platform M-Shwari, according to George Ndegwa from the operator’s financial services division. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 15:30 · Tom Jackson
WPP had competition for Quirk – Stokes
Global communications firm WPP had to beat off competition from five other interested parties to acquire a majority stake in South African ZAR68 million (US$6.5 million) marketing agency Quirk, according to Quirk chief executive officer (CEO) Rob Stokes. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 14:30 · Tom Jackson
Senegal to host pan-West African accelerator for governance solutions
OSIWA and CTIC Dakar have partnered to host the Open Societic accelerator programme, based in Senegal and open to applicants from all West African nations, which looks to assist startups in developing governance solutions. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 13:30 · Chris Udemans
Children’s mobile money a gap in the market
There is a large gap in the youth mobile money market, with few companies providing services aimed at children, according to Christopher Bee, head of strategy and business development at mobile money solutions firm Soulstice Consulting. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 12:30 · Chris Udemans
Prepaid systems key to mobile payments – Wirecard
Prepaid systems need to be incorporated into digital payments at point-of-sales (PoS) terminals to attract more users, according to Enrique Beza, vice president of sales telecommunications in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) at financial services and technology group Wirecard. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 11:30 · Tom Jackson
GovHack SA looks to developers to boost efficiency
The second GovHack South Africa event will be held on Saturday in Cape Town collaboration with Google, 22seven, Silicon Cape and the World Design Capital, in a bid to encourage developers to come up with solutions to increase efficiency and improve sustainability in government operations. → Read more
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Thu, May 22nd, 10:00 · Chris Udemans
Lack of interoperability hurting mobile money market
A lack of interoperability is harming the mobile money market, with only ten operations reaching success out of the 150 launched in the past few years, according to Virginie Bonnot, mobile financial service sales director for Southern and Central Europe at Oberthur Technologies. → Read more
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