Technology & Information

Africa and technology: two terms that have long been wrongly held as antithetical concepts. Africa’s technological revolution, which has seen mobile uptake grow more quickly than anywhere else in the world and internet connectivity increase at a bracing pace, has done much to correct opinions. Now i…

While the mobile phone has been revolutionising life elsewhere on the continent, its use had been limited in Ethiopia because no one had made an Amharic-language handset. That has all changed thanks to the determination of a group of tech-savvy individuals who decided to make one themselves.

West Africa is fast becoming an ICT hub, a development triggered by the current growth in virtually all facets of the economy.

The boost in increased bandwidth provision to Africa is enabling the continent to expand its use of the internet and explore the latest innovations in the IT world. Cloud computing is the new buzz word. What is it and how can it benefit Africa?

Phenomenal growth in Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector is rapidly changing the continent’s macroeconomic landscape. With smartphone use already firmly established for individuals and business, African governments are embracing wide-ranging ICT development, increasing in…

Africa’s greater access to technology, better bandwidth and increasing government effort to provide the right regulatory environment and policy has been also been accompanied by the proliferation of a range of innovative applications. Helping this is the increasing number of incubators created to sp…

Amid a frenetic environment of mobile-phone price wars and a spate of musical chairs among its top telecoms CEOs, Kenya has emerged as the East African leader in ICT innovation, bidding to emulate the US with its new Silicon Savanna in Konza. There is never a dull moment in the East African region’s…

Cape Town University launches Africa’s first centre to bridge the gap between basic and clinical health studies and in the process lead to the production of new drugs to combat serious diseases affecting Africans.

Some regard new technology as a useful tool in business strategy. Others see it as a means of cutting costs. Yet there is no doubt that cutting-edge technological innovation is at the heart of Africa’s banking boom, bringing financial services to the unbanked and driving ever-stiffer competition in …

There can be no argument that the mobile banking revolution is the biggest current trend in the African banking industry. As discussed above, the developers of some payment cards hope that their systems can provide financial services to previously unbanked Africans. Yet by extending the use of airti…