July 17, 2022
South Africa: Technology and Home Visits Can Help South Africans With Diabetes Cope With Insulin
Approximately 4.5 million South Africans have type 2 diabetes - a condition characterised by high levels of sugar in the blood. It can be treated with drugs and managed through… Read more »
June 30, 2022
South Africa: Digital Migration - Court Delay Upholds Information Rights of Poor South Africans
South Africa's Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government's plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June. The decision upholds the… Read more »
June 27, 2022
South Africa: Kenya and South Africa Offer Insights into Digital Economy Challenges and Alternatives
The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a recent analysis it warned that many countries - including those in sub-Saharan… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Africa: Children's Mental Health and the Digital World - How to Get the Balance Right
Technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has led to dramatic shifts in daily life and changed the way children and… Read more »
June 13, 2022
Africa: Twitter Town Square - What Elon Musk Could Learn From Aristotle
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, recently made an offer to buy the social media network Twitter for $44 billion. In a statement Musk declared Read more »
June 10, 2022
Africa: How Ivorian Cyber-Scammers Help Us to Understand the Magic of the Internet
Societies that identify as "modern" tend to categorise people who believe in an invisible world of magic and spirits as irrational and superstitious, thereby excluding them from… Read more »
June 08, 2022
Africa: The Fourth Industrial Revolution - a Seductive Idea Requiring Critical Engagement
Narrative frames are fundamental to unifying ideologies. They frame what is possible and impossible, which ideas can be accepted and which must be rejected. In her book, Digital… Read more »
Nigeria: How Nanotechnology Can Revive Nigeria's Textile Industry
Nigeria's cotton production has fallen steeply in recent years. It once supported the largest textile industry in Africa. The fall is due to weak demand for cotton and to poor… Read more »
May 24, 2022
Africa: Tech Firms Are Making Computer Chips With Human Cells - Is It Ethical?
The year is 2030 and we are at the world's largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Africa: How Many Bots Are On Twitter? The Question Is Difficult to Answer and Misses the Point
Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as "bots." Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: African Scientists and Technology Could Drive Future Black Hole Discoveries
Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration,… Read more »
May 09, 2022
Africa: Using Cellphones to Deliver Health Services to Teens - a Sub-Saharan Africa Review
Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rate of unplanned pregnancies. Almost half (46%) of these unintended pregnancies among adolescents end in abortion. Read more »
June 02, 2019
South Africa: How Technology Could Help Rural South Africa Turn Sunshine Into Income
The way energy is produced and distributed is changing rapidly as the industry moves away from carbon-based energy production. Technological development in the production of… Read more »
April 18, 2019
Africa: Explainer - What Is Quantum Machine Learning and How Can It Help Us?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines' capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider "intelligence". This process is being driven by the… Read more »