Africa

MTN Group faces a cybersecurity breach; no critical systems were compromised, but customer data in some markets was accessed by an unknown third party. MTN Group has been victim to a “cybersecurity incident” that resulted in “unauthorized access to personal information of some customers in certain markets.” In the...

In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most exciting emerging markets, AI innovators are helping everyone from small farmers to a rising generation of young workers to participate in a sustainable and data-driven economy....

TaskMate, a crowdsourcing app that lets people use smartphones to do tasks and get paid, has been launched in Kenya by Google. Google has just launched TaskMate, a crowdsourcing app that lets people use smartphones to do tasks and get paid, in Kenya after a year-long experiment in the East African country....

From the Ventureburn.com blog: 30 African startups were profiled. Their selections were based on the startup coming from an African root and secondly, it been just brilliant. From Transport apps: TaxiRank – South Africa Down in Cape Town, Taxi Rank makes it easy for the city’s 4-million citizens to...

Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa the key to understanding barriers to Mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana From the Google Africa Blog: Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa (Ghana and Kenya). Google.org partnered...

Google is out with a new internet commercial Google+ African Brothers which aims to encourage families to sign up on Google+ — Google’s social network. Google Plus is part Twitter, part Facebook and part Beluga. It gives you yet another way to build a social network and share information...

Social media is here to stay and has changed the way we connect, interact with each other and everyone around us. Social media have helped toppled regimes during the Arab Spring and changed some policies on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. – Do you know that there are more mobile...

  Finding opportunities for young people is a critical challenge for Africa, where 62 percent of the population—more than 600 million young people—is below the age of 25. With no signs that population growth will slow in the decades to come, it is imperative that Africa leverage the talent...

Meet Kelvin Doe aka Dj Focus, a 15-year-old self-taught hardware hacking whiz-kid from Sierra Leone who was given the chance to visit and study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  by David Moinina Sengeh after he run a summer innovation camp in Sierra Leone. The video below shows highlights from the...