November 16, 2023
Africa: AI a 'Potent Remedy' for Africa's Health Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could emerge as a potent remedy for long-standing challenges in Africa's health care sector if innovators, researchers and policymakers collaborated… Read more »
August 28, 2023
Africa: Climate Monitoring Upgrades Urgently Needed in Africa
Damage and deaths caused by climate-related disasters across Africa will balloon if the continent's so-called "hydromet" infrastructure for monitoring weather and water and is not… Read more »
May 30, 2023
Africa: AI Crop Predictor Aids Africa's Crisis Planning
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool is using satellite remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural yields of key crops across Africa, to help mitigate the harms of… Read more »
February 21, 2023
Africa: Agriculture Innovators Share Prize to Aid Food Security
Three tech innovators are to share a US$1.5 million prize to scale up their innovations and enable smallholder farmers to boost productivity, resilience and incomes amid a historic… Read more »
October 12, 2022
Africa: 'Brain Drain' Hits Africa's Tech Developers
Africa must nurture and incentivise tech developers to halt their migration, writes Oladeinde Olawoyin. Read more »
June 02, 2022
Africa: AI Drives Quest for New Antivirals to Fight Outbreaks
Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international… Read more »
May 16, 2011
Africa: Region 'Must Embrace Geospatial Information'
African governments could become more sensitive to what their people really need by harnessing the wealth of available geospatial information, a meeting of scientists and… Read more »