South Africa begins first COVID-19 vaccine trial
South Africa will this week begin its first clinical trial for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus raising hope of taming a pandemic ...
ITU 2020 Guidelines on Child Online Protection respond to new challenges, significant shifts in digital landscape
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) this week launched its new 2020 Guidelines on Child Online Protection (COP), ...
COVID-19: Facebook’s Economic Impact Programmes for African SMBs go virtual
Facebook has announced that all its Economic Impact Programmes will be offered virtually as the platform seeks ...
Internet Society Report highlights opportunity to advance digital economy in Africa
A new report published this week by the Internet Society explains the steps African countries can take ...
Governments and communities mobilize to drive digital skills development among African youth
Africa Code Week (ACW) 2019 has once again exceeded expectations by empowering 3.85 million youth across 37 ...
PONDER THIS: 5 largest investment firms control over $18 trillion in assets, 85% of US GDP
Data gathered by Buyshares.co.uk indicates that the top five investment companies cumulative assets accounted for 85.44% of the US Gross Domestic Product. According to the ...
Cowrie, COINQVEST partner to allow online merchants accept cryptocurrencies into naira accounts
Cowrie Integrated Systems and COINQVEST have announced a partnership to allow Nigerian merchants to add major cryptocurrencies ...
Africa’s agriculture value chains must go digital to transform production – webinar
Africa must seize the opportunity of the COVID-19 pandemic to deepen the digitalization of agricultural value chains ...
How Rwanda is spurring a generation of women in technology
In 2020, Rwanda was the only African country ranked in the top 10 of the World Economic ...
COVID-19: Afrilabs annual gathering goes virtual
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health and safeguarding of our community, the 5th Afrilabs ...
