AfricaComicade Gamathon 2020
The game development industry in Africa has been buzzing for a couple of years now with African theme-based titles released by major development studios across the continent. With a growing large number of loca...
The Africa Blockchain Developers Call (Series) Partners with AfrikaTech
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As the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution becomes imminent, and the proliferation of African tech startups equally continues to increase, digital transformation becomes ine...
Valentine Chime appointed as MD of Vodacom Business Nigeria
The board of Vodacom Business Africa (Nigeria) Limited has appointed Valentine Chime in the role of Managing Director for its operations.
Valentine joins the Company from Aruwa Capital, a private equity comp...
Ivory Coast: MTN launches the First ChatBot to perform mobile money transactions via WhatsApp
Ivory Coast: MTN launches the First ChatBot to perform mobile money transactions via WhatsApp
This innovation called "Eva de MoMo" is a Chatbot based on artificial intelligence technology. Eva thus plays the...
Rwanda: bridging the digital satellite divide
The country of Thousand Hills now counts on Icyerekezo, its satellite launched from Guyana, to cover remote areas that do not have access to the Internet.
A solution from the sky. To provide Internet to scho...
Meeting with Elisabeth Medou Badang, Area Director Orange Middle East & Africa
AfrikaTech went to meet Elisabeth Medou Badang. Present in the telecom world for more than 20 years. This great woman native of Cameroon is zone manager and spokesperson for Orange Middle East & Africa. Thr...
Senegal: a first outdoor platform for access to free wifi launched at the African Renaissance Monument
In the presence of the Minister of Culture, former journalist dubbed a famous writer, Abdou Latif Coulibaly, and the administrator of the African Renaissance Monument, the start-up Interface launched its first ...
Senegal has a computer assembly plant, tablets, smartphones …
In nine months, the African Computer Technology Society (SATI) will bring on the market laptops, smartphones, tablets, decoders, etc. A decisive act in the development of Senegal and especially, in the reductio...
Kodjo Ndukuma: “Africa under the veil of the digital challenges”
- The African continent is under the veil of digital challenges. This was stated in Zoom Eco, Dr. Kodjo Ndukuma who takes part in the first Digital Forum of Congo. The opening of this meeting took place on Tue...
The internet in Madagascar is faster than in France and the United States
Madagascar, considered one of the poorest countries in the world, has one of the highest speeds of broadband Internet in Africa and has a much faster average speed than some of the richest nations in the world,...
Kunfabo: the ambitions of a low-cost African smartphone made in Guinea
$ 99 the smartphone. This is the project of the Guinean Fadima Diawma, keen on new technologies. The social and low-cost concept of the Kunbafo brand - What's new since time? in Malinké, one of the country's na...
Sudan: Sudatel partners with Nokia to develop broadband network across the country
The incumbent telecommunications operator Sudatel announced on July 3, 2018, the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with the Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia. The collaboration concerns th...
Samatar Abdi Osman, the “Mr. Tech” of Djibouti
Djibouti eyeing the 4th economic revolution and Samatar Abdi Osman intends to be the head of this train. It is from now on in the sector of ICT that it marks Djibouti of its footprint.
This 37-year-old man w...
STATE OF PLAY OF THE “COMPUTER AND TELECOM” SECTOR IN AFRICA IN 2017
Whether it is infrastructure, applications, information systems or software, the African market by 2050 will be made up of more than 2 billion people. The establishment and development of call centers is becomi...
STATE OF PLAY OF THE “INTERNET ACCESS” SECTOR IN AFRICA IN 2017
In Africa, access to the internet is a real development issue. During the last ten years, connectivity on the African continent has undergone significant evolution. Mobile telephone networks have made a signifi...