Kenya: Worldremit Launches New Product for Business Payments to Kenya

Kenyan entrepreneurs and contractors selling goods and services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. can now receive payments faster and more conveniently… Read more »

Africa: East Africa's National Budgets Skewed to Fix Tighter Times Ahead

The iconic national treasury briefcases with their conspicuously imposing respective national emblems demonstrated a showcase of ownership, their 2019-2020 contents squarely seem… Read more »

Tanzania: DPO Launches B2B Virtual, Prepaid Payment Card in Kenya and Tanzania

DPO Group has launched a business to business payment card dubbed, 'DumaCard', which is offered as a plastic card as well as in virtual form, initially to its 10,000 business… Read more »

South Africa: GESP Launches Website to Help Address Global E-Waste Challenge

The Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP) of which the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a founding member, launched globalewaste.org, an open source portal… Read more »

Kenya: Koko to Utilise Smart ATMs for Dispensing Clean Bio-Ethanol Fuel in Kenya

KOKO Networks announced the launch of KOKO Fuel, a clean, safe and affordable liquid ethanol cooking fuel solution, that is dispensed from "KOKOpoint" Smart Fuel ATMs located in… Read more »

Kenya: Alliance High Challenges Peer Schools Into a Computing and Robotics Fair

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates that within the next 10 years, there will be more than two million technology jobs that will not be filled due to the lack… Read more »

Africa: SIM Swap Fraud - a New Wave of Attacks Targeting Financial, Online Services in Africa

During Kaspersky Lab's annual Cyber Security Weekend that took place in Cape Town, South Africa, Kaspersky Lab experts discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments across… Read more »

East Africa: IS Appoints Sylvester Mboya the Chief Commercial Officer

Internet Solutions (IS) has hired Sylvester Mboya to spearhead its commercial business unit as the company looks to grow its revenues and footprint in the East African region. Read more »

East Africa: AI for Mental Health

As the World observes the May Mental Health Awareness month, preceding the World Mental Health Day in June, which is themed to 'Prevent Suicide', it emerges that myths and the… Read more »

East Africa: Fsis and Fintechs Collaboration On the Rise

According to a recently released white paper by DLA Piper, Financial Services organizations reported that 52 per cent engaged with FinTechs in the last two years (2016-2018) and… Read more »

East Africa: CIO East Africa Partners With AHS to Host Robotics Fair

CIO East Africa has on boarded the bandwidth that will lend a hand in seeing to the success of the annual Computing and Robotics Fair at Alliance High School. Read more »

East Africa: Four Challenges Blockchain Must Overcome to Achieve Mass Appeal

When most people think about blockchain, they likely associate it with Bitcoin or other types of cryptocurrency. Read more »

Kenya: Copia Kenya Launches E-Commerce Service for Buying, Sending Goods Upcountry

Copia Kenya has launched a new online shopping solution that makes it easier for people living in urban areas to buy goods and have them delivered to their friends and family… Read more »

East Africa: Saccos to Either Embrace Technology or Die

Saccos which have embraced modern technology in service delivery have the competitive edge in the market however such are not a majority in Kenya or perhaps East Africa as it… Read more »

Kenya: Fortinet Calls On Saccos to Digitally Transform

We are sending and receiving more data than we can process in every single moment. We are even spending more money online than we ever before intended to. This is a drive for… Read more »

Kenya: Huawei, Redington Partnership Seeks to Enhance Efforts to Grow Kenya's ICT Ecosystem

Huawei and Redington organised the second Partner Summit attended by 100 local IT companies who they work with to integrate Huawei's leading ICT products in the Kenyan market. Read more »

Kenya: Metropol Kenya Launches TV Station, Harvest Terminal to Provide Investors With Data

Metropol Corporation, commonly known as a credit rating services, recently launched a 24-hour TV station dubbed Metropol TV alongside an information resource called the Harvest… Read more »

Rwanda: Kenya Hosts Talks About Cybersecurity Ahead of the Regional CSS in Rwanda

With the regional Cloud and Cybersecurity summit (CSS) in Kigali, Rwanda, just around the corner, CreditInfo and Serianu hosted different talk sessions pertaining to fraud and… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Science Teacher Peter Tabichi Wins a U.S.$1 Million Global Prize

The news about one Mr. Peter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order based in Nakuru Kenya, winning the 2019 Global Teacher Prize was a merry. Mr Tabichi was honored… Read more »

Africa: Supporting an AI-Enabled Future in Africa

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) dominated discussions at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos – with delegates touching on everything from ethics to… Read more »

Kenya: Samsung Galaxy S10 Series Launches in the Kenya Market

Samsung East Africa has officially launched the Galaxy S10 into the Kenyan Market. The Samsung trio, Galaxy S10e, S10 and S10+ which is engineered to meet the distinct needs of… Read more »

East Africa: New Technologies Could Help Conservationists Keep Better Track of Serengeti Wildebeest Herds

In a new paper published recently in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, mathematicians and conservationists from the UK, Africa and the United States discuss how they… Read more »

East Africa: Dig Africa Launches the Digital Disruption Caucus to Shake Up East Africa's Tech Space

The Digital Innovation Group (DIG Africa) comprising of East Africa's top techies, recently launched the digital disruption caucus at the Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya. Read more »

East Africa: Saccotech Forum Advisory Board Launched

Ahead of the inaugural SACCOTECH forum, CIO East Africa; the entity organising the event, has officially launched the advisory board that will assist in organising the event. Read more »

East Africa: Safaricom Says Cashless System Boosting Revenue Collection in Counties By Up to 30 Percent

Safaricom says that cashless systems adopted by county governments have diminished leakages and boosted revenues by up to 30 percent. Read more »