The Kigali, Rwanda-based Co-creation Hub [CcHUB] has launched the ‘CcHUB Design Lab’. The design lab is key step in Africa’s growing tech sector, and is set to become a leading creative space where its multidisciplinary team […]
Liquid Telecom is supporting African gaming developers, programmers and designers at locally hosted Global Game Jam events in East Africa this weekend. As a local partner in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, Liquid Telecom will […]
Phanes Group, an international end-to-end solar provider headquartered in Dubai, UAE, has announced Mr Mbaye Hadj and his Gossas Solar Farm Project (30 MW) as the winner of the second edition of its Solar Incubator. […]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma recently witnessed the signing of three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) between the Rwanda government and Alibaba establishing an eWTP (electronic world trade platform) hub in Rwanda. […]
By Kenny Ewan A stranger enters the room, from another world, and tells a long-time team to do things differently. And the chances of a great outcome, based on human psychology, are not great. Most […]
Agsol, a Kenyan start-up based in Nairobi which manufactures solar-powered agro processing machines for off-grid farming communities, has been selected for Microsoft’s third annual Airband Grant Fund. Microsoft announced that this is part of its Airband Initiative, […]
The popular series Twist of Fate, which returns for its second season, will now also be available in Swahili. Twist of Fate airs at 20:00 CAT on Zee World – DStv channel 166 and GOtv channel 25. The Swahili […]
The African Development Bank, together with partners – Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit (#AIS2018) in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven ICT curriculum […]
Three individuals – Koketso Moeti from South Africa, Moussa Kondo from Mali and Sasha Fisher from New York but running a project in Rwanda – are among the inaugural group of 20 people selected as the 2018 Obama Foundation […]
Speakers at the International Conference on Responsible and Inclusive Finance (ICRIF) held in Kigali on March 21, 2018 urged Rwandan microfinance institutions (MFIs) to embrace new-age technology to streamline their operations and to enhance their ability […]
The Africa Innovation Summit 2018 (AIS 2018) team in partnership with NEPAD Agency has announced the meeting of the African Union (AU) High Level Panel on Emerging Technologies (APET) during the #AIS2018. The High Level-APET has […]
Millions more people in Africa now have access to financial systems thanks to cashless systems using digital technology, and more and more people are seeing the benefits of mobile banking, according to Ecobank. Ecobank was […]
Liquid Telecom has announced its sponsorship of the Africa Tech Summit and will join innovators from Africa at this week event set to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, from February 14 – […]
Bharti Airtel has announced said that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Millicom – which operates the Tigo telco brand – to acquire the firm’s subsidiary in Rwanda. The acquisition means that Bharti […]
Airtel Kenya has come out to refute media reports that it plans to cease its operations in the country, a market where it ranks second with 6.3 million subscribers, equivalent to 16.3 per cent of […]
Rwanda is set to play host to eLearning Africa 2018, the 13th edition of the annual event. The conference, which is being jointly organised by ICWE GmbH and the Rwanda Convention Bureau under the patronage of […]
Econet Wireless group is reportedly set to expand its mobile network operations to four additional markets in Africa through the acquisition of Millicom assets, which operates here under the ‘Tigo’ brand. Econet, founded by Zimbabwean […]
TransUnion Africa, a provider of information solutions for assessing and managing risk, has launched Menyesha, a mobile credit reporting platform, to specifically cater to the Rwandan market. Menyesha, meaning “Inform Me” in Kinyarwanda, represents a leap forward in […]
By Ben Roberts By 2022, the airspace will be busier with Flying Mini Robots as the number of commercial drones expected to go over 620,000 whilst their commercial market expected to hit US $15 billion […]
Liquid Telecom is supporting start-ups entering the DataHack4FI innovation competition by providing free high-speed internet access and cloud-based services. Now in its second year, the DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) competition, an initiative by insight2impact (i2i), brings […]
Ihaba and the government of Rwanda have announced that the second Africa Innovation Summit (AIS II) will take place on June 6 – 8, 2018 at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda. The AIS II […]
Mozilla-backed research, carried out by Research ICT Africa, finds that significant barriers to internet access remains in four African countries – Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The research aims to understand, from a comparative perspective, […]
Microsoft has announced 21 East African entrepreneurs who will receive #Insiders4Good Fellowships. Launched in partnership with GrowthAfrica, the Fellowship aims to support promising entrepreneurs in turning their social business ideas into reality. This is the […]
Pope Francis is the most followed world leader on Twitter with a combined total of 33,716,301 followers on his nine language accounts, ahead of US President Donald Trump with 30,133,036 followers and Indian PM Narendra […]
Liquid Telecom has launched a new Wi-Fi roaming hub that enables operators and ISPs to access its network of public Wi-Fi hotspots across Africa for the first time. Africa Wi-Fi Hub will allow Liquid Telecom’s […]
By Njeri Wangari GeoPoll, in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), conducted two rounds of SMS-based surveys to determine the drivers of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) practices for Rwandan farmers. During […]
Nokia and SRG will collaborate with Rwanda government to deploy Smart City technology to improve the lifestyle and social sustainability of its citizens in 2017. This announcement was made last week in Kigali during the […]
The 2017 edition of Transform Africa Summit is set to open in Kigali, Rwanda this week on May 10 and run for three days till may 12, 2017. Transform Africa Summit an annual African forum which […]
The Rwanda government and Mastercard have reaffirmed their shared commitment to the development of strong digital platforms to meet the needs of the country’s citizens and work towards Rwanda’s goal of promoting a cashless society. […]
In support of Rwanda’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has confirmed a grant of up to US $1 million over 3 years to support the growth of SME business owners in […]
Shippers using the Northern corridor, which stretches from the port of Mombasa to the Kenya/Uganda Malaba border, now have an additional reason to smile with the launch of the Regional Electronic Cargo Tracking System (RECTS). […]
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