Bitcoin is growing in Africa
According to many reports this week, Bitcoin is still booming in several African countries. From South Africa to the sub-Saharan region, citizens from all walks of life find Bitcoin very beneficial for their ec...
Kenya: VTC companies ‘war impacts drivers’ work
Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, has become for almost a year the theater of a real price war between the different transport applications that compete for the market. For the US company Uber, Kenya is the second l...
Startup Lions, the first book on the Tech scene and African startup
In a book-report titled "Startup Lions", the entrepreneur and tech reporter Samir Abdelkrim paints the story of 3 years of investigation and immersion trips at the heart of tech ecosystems and new actors of inn...
Jonathan Mboyo Esole: an Einstein future for Africa?
PORTRAIT. Brilliant mathematics professor from Kinshasa, Next Einstein Fellow, Jonathan Mboyo Esole went through Boston and Harvard. And it's not over.
This is the story of a little boy known for his develop...
Nigeria: Quality and cheaper internet connection in Lagos
MainOne and Tizeti today announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of Internet services in Lagos. The partnership will benefit from MainOne's fiber-optic conn...
Digital economy: the “smart village” soon a reality in Congo
The South African company "Bvutiselo group" intends to set up in the Congo to develop the "smart village". this wish was expressed by the Director-Manager of this company, Dick Bvuma, after a working session wi...
Ivory Coast and Senegal in top 10 African countries attracted most funding for start-ups
The two countries of the WAEMU zone that are Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal are among the top 10 African countries that attracted the most funding for start-ups in 2016, reads data made available by Partech Venture,...
When will Africa finally transform its raw materials?
In a new report published on November 20 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the African Development Bank (Bad) calls for the industrialization of Africa, with a focus on smart industrial policy, structural transformati...
THE FINTECH KÉNYANE ALTERNATIVE CIRCLE PLATFORM, SPECIALIZING IN MOBILE LOANS, IS CONSIDERING THE UEMOA AND CEMAC ZONES
Alternative Circle, a Kenyan fintech specializing in very small credit services via mobile platforms, said she did not rule out expanding in UEMOA and CEMAC countries, if ever the sector regulators financial ga...
BAÏLA NDIAYE AND HER SINDIELY CAR
Since childhood, Baïla Ndiaye, of Senegalese nationality, has been passionate about cars. From the age of 8, he tries to "tinker with" miniature cars using wire. Little by little, his childhood dream came true....
KENYA AND ETHIOPIA COULD BECOME THE CONTINENT’S FUTURE TRUCKS
Kenya and Ethiopia are on their way to becoming the African continent’s new investment heavyweights. With, in prospect, the possibility of supplanting the current giants of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.
T...
PIERRE DJIBRIL COULIBALY AND NEXPRO UBS SOFTWARE
Pierre Djibril Coulibaly, inventor and President of the Federation of Inventors of Côte d'Ivoire (FEDINCI), is behind the design of the universal management software, the NexPro UBS. Pierre Djibril Coulibaly wa...
AFRICAN TECH INDUSTRY RETURNS TO PARIS
The first back-to-school meeting with African Tech will take place on September 5, 2017 at Medef and will be offered to you by Afrobytes and its partner CcHUB, the first Nigerian incubator based in Lagos.
Af...
DAWIT BEKELE, ICT EXPERT PREDICTS “FULLY ADVANCED INTERNET” IN AFRICA
At the end of the 8th edition of the “African Peering interconnection forum” (AFPIF) or the African peering and interconnection forum that its structure organized from 22 to 24 August 2017 in Abidjan, Dawit Bek...
SENEGAL: CTIC INAUGURATES ITS NEW PREMISES
The ICTC inaugurated its new premises in Dakar on Thursday. The new building, an old state building renovated thanks to the building heritage department. It will allow the incubator to better carry out its miss...