'Innovation Key to Supporting Africa's Transformation'
M-Pesa, a mobile financial service, has revolutionised how nearly 25 million Kenyans pay each other money and do their daily transactions, writes Toby Shapshak for Africa in Fact. The service is a vanguard for Economic Commission for Africa's Executive Secretary Vera Songwe's call for African innovation to be delivered through trade, ICT and climate smart industrialization.
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Africa: How Technology Could Let Africa Bloom
Africa In Fact, 29 September 2017
On any corner in Nairobi on any given day, the future of African commerce can be seen in action.From the most basic of feature phones, right up to sophisticated smartphones,… Read more »
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Africa: Innovation Key to Supporting Africa's Transformation, Says Vera Songwe
UNECA, 29 September 2017
Investment in innovation is critical if Africa's new industries, especially in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, are to play a crucial role in promoting… Read more »
Aboubacar Savage, 14, from Gambia looks at a computer at the 2017 Pan-African Robotics Competition in Dakar, Senegal.
A solar car made by Rwandan Engineering students who say it can contribute to the reduction of gas emissions by using green energy.
Kenyan customers enjoy a demonstration of AzuriTV, a solar-powered, pay-as-you-go TV service.
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After seeing the overall "bath culture" as wasteful, Virginia Gardiner founded Loowatt toilets in 2010. The project kills two birds with one stone, giving people a toilet and ... Read more »
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Developers don't come from nowhere. They need to learn their trade and be able to practice it. They need to widen their experience by working on more projects and ideally, get ... Read more »
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A new factory in Praslin, the second most-populated island in Seychelles has come up with an innovative way of collecting washed up seeweed and turning it in to agricultural ... Read more »
