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Tue, November 27th, 12:04 · Robin Okuthe

Mobile technology fast-tracking Africa’s health landscape

Innovative approaches of doing businesses often prompted by ‘novel technologies’ have upended the roles of private and public sector in development as they offer a new design of healthcare opportunities in developing countries. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 12:20 · Gythan Munga

Q&A: Ngugi Gikonyo on contacts backup, a momentous trend on the mobile space

Kenya’s phone backup solutions developer Binary Science has been exploiting cloud computing by enabling individuals to save and manage important phone contacts. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:29 · Gythan Munga

Interview: Boniface Githinji, CEO and Founder Tusqee Systems, Silicon Valley bound

With their bulk SMS products now being speedily adopted by a number of schools and corporate firms in Kenya, Tusqee Systems is one of the few disruptive African startups to have come out of a hackathon, determined to change the face of communications. → Read more
Wed, November 21st, 09:34 · Robin Okuthe

How safe is your data? How Facebook [mis]uses them

You are probably familiar with Facebook advertising, and those that work in marketing may well have used it. Yet what types of data Facebook collects and how securely they are applied in advertising still remains unclear. To straighten this out, here is a digest of how the social networking giant slips user data into advertising. → Read more
Mon, November 19th, 14:21 · Vincent Matinde

Western Union and a Nigerian bank open a pitching session for entrepreneurs

Money transfer giant Western Union has, in partnership with Bank of Industry, started a forum that will see startups pitch to banking officials for funding for their business. → Read more
Mon, November 19th, 13:05 · Gabriella Mulligan

Q&A: Siyavula founder Mark Horner

As a social enterprise determined to facilitate universal access to quality educational materials for all teachers and students across South Africa, Siyavula’s philosophy is that openness, collaboration and the effective use of technology is the way to revolutionise the country’s education system, as founder Mark Horner tells HumanIPO. → Read more
Fri, November 16th, 08:14 · HumanIPO

Guest Post: When does an entrepreneur become a businessman?

Mark Allewell is a successful serial entrepreneur based in Cape Town, in the mobile, media tech travel space. He started his career in the hospitality industry in South Africa, before opening the doors to his first company, The Frontline Training Company. He is the founder of Tourism Radio and Hummba.com. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 07:51 · Tefo Mohapi

The Curious Case of Nyagaka Anyona Ouko, the Mobile Money Transfer Innovator – Part II

Technology startups in Africa face many obstacles ranging from insufficient capital to start their businesses, and more frustratingly, government red-tape and bureaucracy. Nyagaka Anyona Ouko experienced one such trying experience that forced him to change strategy albeit leading him into more hurdles. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 06:48 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data’s Kevin Leahy talks on the drivers changing data center strategies

Kevin Leahy who is Dimension Data’s chief architect for virtualisation and cloud believes there are a number of drivers that are shaping the data centre strategies of CIOs, the result of several macro-economic, geographical and developmental shifts including location, policy and automation and cloud communities. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 10:38 · HumanIPO

HumanIPO Debate: Should Kenya’s government screen SMSes ahead of General Elections?

Kenya’s communications regulator the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) last month spelled out tough rules expected to curb hate speech ahead of the country’s general elections slated for March 4 next year. HumanIPO’s Kamau Mbote and Vince Matinde debate the pros and cons of CCK’s move. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 07:42 · Gabriella Mulligan

Q&A: TaxTim co-founder Evan Robinson

As South African virtual tax advisor TaxTim goes from strength to strength, the creator of the chat platform behind the trending new product and co-founder of TaxTim, Evan Robinson, tells HumanIPO about the technicalities behind creating an easy-to-use and expandable new chat program. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 16:09 · Tefo Mohapi

The Curious Case of Nyagaka Anyona Ouko, the Mobile Money Transfer ‘innovator’ – Part I

Since the launch of the Vodafone Mobile Money Transfer Service, popularly known as M-PESA, in Kenya five years ago, Safaricom / Vodafone have faced a wave of allegations claiming the telecoms giant ‘stole’ the idea. One unresolved case has even ended up in the courts. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 15:32 · Gabriella Mulligan

Q&A: Asaf Weisbrot, EMEA Sales Director, F5 Traffix

With Long Term Evolution (LTE) services commercially launched in South Africa in October and mass rollout planned before the end of the year, attention has turned to the potential signalling implications of the switch to LTE. In an exclusive interview with HumanIPO, Asaf Weisbrot of F5 Traffix Systems speaks of the challenges of an LTE switch-on, the precautions that should be taken, and the possible costs of failure for operators. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 14:01 · Tefo Mohapi

INTERVIEW: biNu’s Mark Shoebridge on the next 4 billion users

Feature phones are widely used in the developing world, especially in Africa, to access the Internet leaving the user on the periphery as far as new Web services targeted and developed for smartphones are concerned. An Australian technology startup company believes it has the solution to this. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 13:44 · Kamau Mbote

Opinion: Focus on Kenya – Raila, Uhuru, Ruto dominate Internet

Looking at Internet searches in the last 3 months to the U.S general election, steady dominance by the overall winner Barack Obama compared to few for Mitt Romney pointed to the relevance of searches in indicating political superiority. With this in mind, my focus shifts to Kenya just 3 months before the general elections. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:07 · Vincent Matinde

OPINION: Hard copy book publishing on its deathbed in Africa

Book publishing could soon become "a nostalgic process" rather than a main business process, just like producing mix tapes in a CD-ROM world. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 14:08 · Gabriella Mulligan

OPINION: The South African government should get its priorities straight

Under the remits of the ICT Vision 2020, the South African government has pledged to ensure 100 percent Internet penetration across the country by 2020. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 12:24 · Kamau Mbote

REVIEW: Exploring E-commerce Kenyan style

Kenyan e-commerce exhibits how social media has opened up opportunities for the youth in the country, and how access to the Internet can uplift the population. The names Soko Kuu and Soko Nyeusi may not resound as much as eBay, but to some 34,200 Facebook users, mostly in Kenya, they are the local equivalent. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 09:59 · Tefo Mohapi

Is M-Pesa really Kenyan or British?

Hailed as the “Kenyan technology success story”, many have claimed M-Pesa to be testimony to the greatness of the East African country’s technology scene, producing world-class technology companies that rival those in South Africa. But, is the acclaimed mobile money service really Kenyan at all? → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 09:52 · HumanIPO

The HumanIPO Debate: Does Kenya need Konza Tech City?

In the second installment of the HumanIPO debate series, where reporters and guest writers debate important issues within the African tech sector and invite readers to join in the discussion on Twitter and Facebook, we discuss the positives and negatives of the multi-billion shilling Konza Tech City project. → Read more