SolarKiosk, a modular business unit for Africa and off–grid areas anywhere in the world, recently opened its first kiosk near Lake Langano, Ethiopia.   Following a period of design and planning, a privately financed company was formed to prepare the product for serial production by building prototypes and running...

SasaAfrica has created an online storefront for vendors in under served communities which uses MMS uploads, SMS notifications, and mobile payments. Aimed at shortening the distance between credit-based consumers and developing nation vendors, SasaAfrica.com. According to the team behind SasaAfrica, their main goal is to provide an online storefront...

Maker Faire Africa is delighted to announce their 4th event Maker Faire Africa, Lagos which will take place in Lagos, Nigeria from November 5 – 6, 2012. Join them once again as they continue to cultivate new and existing maker communities across Africa. As was the case in Accra...

Skate soccer wasn’t featured at the London 2012 Paralympics, but a new documentary aims to raise the profile of the bruising new sport from Ghana. Rollaball tells the story of The Rolling Rockets, an inspiring team of Ghanaian polio survivors who are pioneering an extreme sport combination of skating...

    Co-founders Robert Lamptey and Badu Boahen of Saya Mobile pitched their messaging startup Saya Mobile at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference currently on-going in San Francisco, California yesterday highlighting the potential of African innovations to an international audience. The Saya Mobile App is for texting which mixes SMS,...

Ghana’s BloggingGhana, TruthGauge, Code4Ghana and 37 other digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists in the inaugural $1 million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC). According to African News Innovation Challenge:               This is the largest fund for digital journalism experimentation in Africa, and is designed to spur solutions...

World’s fastest growing region — with Eastern and Middle Africa still below 50% penetration With 700,000 mobile connections in Q2 2012, Africa has overtaken Asia Pacific as the world’s fastest growing region in terms of cellular reach, resulting in new milestones in the global mobile industry. Wireless.com’s infographic shows...

Students, Non-Governmental Organizations, Civic Society Organizations and others interested in Education and the transformation of the Central Region are invited to Barcamp Cape-Coast on September 8, 2012. Venue: New Lecture Theatre (NLT) of the University of Cape Coast. The theme for this year is “Revolutionizing Education through Arts &...

Leading Scotch Whisky Brand, LABEL 5 has launched a great competition through its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Label5, which invites its worldwide fans to take an Instagram picture which echoes, according to them, the number 5, to get a chance to win a 5-day trip to NEW YORK City! LABEL 5...