Brazilian government to begin purchasing “digital content” in 2014 By Edward Nawotka With the Brazilian government to begin purchasing “digital content” in 2014, Brazil’s publishing industry gathered to discuss...
Whether it’s tracking locusts or government spending, west Africa’s hi-tech firms are finding new solutions to social problems By Monica Mark in Lagos Musa Mohammad, who has Polio, holds...
PRESS RELEASE Photo: Tugela Ridley/IRIN Keeping up with the latest news. Nairobi — Seven in ten Africans own their own mobile phones, with access essentially universal in Algeria and Senegal,...
Following a decade of rapid urbanization and strong economic growth, Africa is going digital. While just 16 percent of the continent’s one billion people are online, that picture is...
NAIROBI, Kenya–As young pitchmen shout to potential passengers over blaring music, a graffiti-covered private minibus fills up more quickly than the other dozen in the scrum. It has free...
One of the most important steps to building an infrastructure for Black independent cinema in the digital age must begin with the creation and maintenance of a distribution platform...
With so much happening in the African tech market these days, it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a handy guide we’ll try to put out every month on the...
Every week, the American tech sector uses the most advanced mobile technologies in the world to create some new meaningless distraction. Tinder for dogs, Airbnb for boats, Yo —...
ARE small cargo drones the answer to some of Africa’s most pressing problems? A group of European engineers supported by IBM thinks so. Christened “flying donkeys” and now in...
The administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the local content policy for Nigeria in 2006. The main purpose was to increase local capacity and participation in the petroleum...