Kenya: Jumia's Food Festival Campaign Aims to Support Local Restaurants

Home food delivery from restaurants is growing fast, as more consumers are choosing to order from home or the office and want to avoid crowds. Jumia food festival campaign will… Read more »

Uganda: New Uganda Electricity Connection Applications Go Online

Intending customers who want to connect to the electricity grid no longer have to trek to the Umeme offices following the launch of an online application portal by power… Read more »

Ethiopia: Visa Affirms Commitment to Digitise Payments During Inaugural Visa Payments Forum

Visa Inc, the leading global payments technology company, has affirmed its commitment to expanding digital payments in Ethiopia by working closely with the financial ecosystem to… Read more »

Africa: Impact of AfCFTA On Africa's Energy Sector

The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) will constitute the world's largest free trade area, consolidating an integrated market of 1.3 billion consumers with a… Read more »

Namibia: Nampower Lights Up Innovation Potential With S/4hana Go-Live

In the increasingly competitive energy sector, operational efficiency and better utilisation of resources are keys to growth. For one of Southern Africa's leading energy utilities,… Read more »

Africa: Don't Wrack Your Brains On What Tech Gifts to Buy This Christmas Period - Here Are the Top 3

We all know somebody in our lives that is supposedly impossible to shop for. But, even for the impossible-to-shop-for person, the latest tech gadgets will always make for an… Read more »

Africa: Gumzo Unveils Online Platform for Tutors to Support Education During Covid

After successfully piloting "Gumzo For Schools", a video conferencing system designed specifically for e-learning in Africa; Usiku Games has enhanced its platform to allow tutors… Read more »

Africa: How Critical Is Tech Leadership in Uncertain Times?

In times like these, technology leaders are often in a battle of wits. They do not always know where to place their focus. What should they be doing to mitigate risks? Or to… Read more »

Kenya: Nicholas Nganga Named as Kakuzi Chair

Former Safaricom chairman, Nicholas Nganga has been appointed to chair the Kakuzi board with immediate effect. Nganga has taken over from Graham Mclean who bowed out of the role,… Read more »

Africa: Data-Driven Agriculture Can Help End Hunger

One of most the prominent challenges facing Africa is providing food security for its citizens. While many farmers still rely on traditional techniques to coax a living from the… Read more »

Kenya: Start-Up Digitises Police Operations

Recent times have completely revamped the landscape for ICT. Policymakers and innovators today face an environment transformed by information and communications technology (ICT).… Read more »

East Africa: Seizing the Opportunity for Seamless Cloud

Cloud computing without a doubt, represents one of the largest paradigm shifts of the last decade. Migrating to the cloud can be challenging and expensive, but is well worth the… Read more »

East Africa: Reducing the Risk and Cost of Cloud Migrations

Cloud computing seems to be the buzzword of the decade. More businesses are making the switch every day. While harnessing the power of cloud computing to streamline IT processes… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Competes Fairly on Solutions to Fight Covid-19

At the just-concluded virtual ATU Africa Innovation Challenge 2020, Kenya has ranked top three, coming after Egypt's Mai Nagy, that emerged the overall winner. Read more »

Africa: Mastercard Partners With Samsung, Airtel and Asante to Drive Digital Inclusion in Africa

Pay-on-Demand platform enables safe, secure and convenient consumer financing via Samsung devices with embedded Knox security platform, through Airtel Africa's network. This… Read more »

East Africa: AWS Cloud Boost for MP Shah Hospital

MP Shah Hospital has hopped in the driving seat of the digital transformation, and is steering itself away from ageing infrastructure and towards optimised, dynamic services. Read more »

Uganda: Hackers Break Into Telcos, Banks, Make Off With Billions of Shillings

Unidentified hackers broke into the systems of Pegasus Technologies, a company that integrates mobile money transactions between telcos, banks, and other local, regional and… Read more »

East Africa: Advanced Digital Solutions in Insurance Are No Longer a Thing of the Past Says Equisoft

When you hear the words digital revolution, you envision a grand scale of traditional tasks being edged out and replaced. Whilst this may be true, the digital revolution is a quiet… Read more »

Kenya: Smart Home Appliances Are the New Trend for Kenyan Home Owners

Recent trends suggest that there has been an increase in the purchase of smart home appliances in the Kenyan market. This can be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic that has… Read more »

East Africa: The New Insurance World

Insurance is fast undergoing transformation globally, a shift that has all stakeholders adjusting to a new world. Read more »

South Africa: South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria Have Seen Millions of Cyber Attacks in 2020 Already

Kaspersky security solutions have reported on 28 million malware attacks in 2020 and 102 million detections of potentially unwanted programs (pornware, adware etc.) they have… Read more »

Kenya: Chipper Poaches Kiptum to Manage Nairobi Office

Chipper Cash has announced the appointment of Leon Kiptum, the new Country Manager at its Nairobi office. Read more »

East Africa: Unveiling the Hidden Value of Innovation and Collaboration

"Open collaboration worldwide is a must." That's the view of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei. As he puts it, it's impossible for one company to dominate the information market,… Read more »

East Africa: Spiral Eyes Emoji Revealed - to Help Express the Anguish of 2020

2020, this year will go down in history. But, not for the best of reasons. Most reasons why 2020 will go down in history is the wildfires that have ravaged across Australia, Brazil… Read more »

Africa: Is Your Customer Service Superhuman?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is present technology, worming its way into our day to day life. It is no longer a future promise. If anything, now is when the industry needs to adopt… Read more »