E-HEALTH, AFRICA’S GREAT HOPE
All it took was an epidemic, Ebola, to show the terrible state of infrastructure and health systems in West Africa, despite decades of development assistance. What if the solution was digital? What if technolog...
Burkina Faso: Christian Toé will receive more than 100 million CFA for his invention
At 28, the young Burkinabé engineer is developing Laafi Bag, a cooling bag capable of keeping vaccines at the right temperature for four days.
His invention will certainly help many health workers who immuni...
A mobile application facilitates access to healthcare for everyone in Africa
The Congolese start-up WapiMED has developed an e-health application to geolocate health professionals to facilitate access to care in the most remote areas.
Even today, in Africa, there is a glaring inequal...
Easy Link Guinea presents the first Guinean digital fair called Con ’ConakryDigitalWeek’ from May 25 to 27, 2017 in Conakry
Do you work in ICT?
you have a rare opportunity not to be missed to make yourself known, sell a product, encourage people to adopt favorable behaviors, develop partnerships and mobilize funding. Equipped wit...
Colisdays, the site for sending parcels between individuals in Africa and around the world.
Colisdays is a free community platform that connects shippers with travelers taking advantage of a trip already planned to transport packages or documents.
As founding members living in France and originally...
How the Expat-Dakar platform became a “success story”
Expat-Dakar is one of the most consulted platforms in Senegal. Thanks to its strategy of bringing together sellers, buyers or advertisers, the classified ads platform is attracting more and more Internet users....
An energy revolution similar to that of mobile telephony is brewing in Africa
(Ecofin Agency) - A solar energy revolution of the same scale and importance as the rapid expansion of mobile telephony that took place two decades ago is soon coming to Africa, according to Adnan Amin, directo...
Africa finally has its “.africa” domain name
Africa finally has its ".africa" domain name
Good news for the African internet world. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has just ann...
Ethiopia to build road to facilitate import of petroleum products from South Sudan
(Agence Ecofin) - Ethiopia plans to finance the construction of a road connecting the oil fields of Paloch, in the Upper Nile region, in South Sudan, to the oil terminal in the town of Malakal, in the west from...
Oluwaseun Osewa: the founder of the largest web forum in Africa
One of Africa's greatest tech-takers, young Nigerian Oluwaseun Osewa, has made a name for himself by putting Africa's largest "Nairaland" online forum online in Nigeria. This initiative has won him several awar...
Nigerian startup OneFi crowned at the Paris Fintech Forum Awards
The Paris Fintech Forum Awards held their second edition last week in the French capital. Out of more than 100 strartups from all over the world, 12 stood out. Among them, only one from Africa: the Nigerian One...
Kenya: “We are already Africa’s digital hub! “
“NexTech Africa is an opportunity to accelerate the use of products and services designed to meet African realities. It is also an opportunity to put in the spotlight world-class solutions designed in Africa an...
Promotion of ICT: Brazzaville will host the International Exhibition of Information Technologies and Innovation from April 11 to 14
To better relay the message to the actors who were invited to the Show, the PRATIC association in partnership with the Post and Electronic Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ARPCE), organized on February 7, ...
Cameroon: Collins Nji, 17, wins the 2016 Google Code competition
(TIC Mag) - On January 30, 2017, Google announced the winners of its annual competition dubbed Google Code, 2016 edition. Bamenda high school which also becomes the first African to win this competition.
The...
IBM launches $ 70 million ICT training program for 25 million young Africans
(Agence Ecofin) - International Business Machine (IBM) has decided to improve the computer skills of 25 million young Africans in the digital, cloud and cognitive segments. It has just launched a training progr...