tech + telecom highlights
C Comba’s industry-leading RRH, base station antennas products and services, combined with Parallel Wireless world’s first 2G/3G/4G/5G software, advance Open RAN with lowest TCO for MNOs globally Parallel Wireless, Inc., and Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited jointly announced…
The World Food Prize Foundation and the newly launched World Hunger Fighters Foundation are partnering to provide year-long fellowships for young African food innovators and entrepreneurs The World Hunger Fighters Foundation will award annual Borlaug-Adesina…
Under the second day’s theme of “Energy in Powering Growth”, panel discussions and talk sessions unpacked the challenges and opportunities in Africa’s power sector Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy of South Africa, Gwede Mantashe,…
VC4A is proud to announce the 12 ventures (11 Series A and 1 Seed+) for its 2019 Venture Showcase. These companies represent the best investment opportunities on the continent. They have been vetted by 40…
The Bank has invested more than $150 million in building technology hubs in Rwanda, Senegal and Cabo Verde • Leaders should devise an “incentive structure” to promote a startup culture among young Africans. “I think…
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa remains small by global standards, but prominent in relation to Gross domestic products (GDP) • Africa’s growth remains uneven, with East Africa out-pacing the rest of the continent •…
Memfys is the first hospital in South-East Nigeria to install GE Healthcare’s SIGNA™ Explorer 1.5Tesla MRI system • The collaboration will help provide innovative technology to enable early diagnosis and detection of diseases GE Healthcare…
Prioritizing the digital space will help shift the development focus for Africa’s agribusiness sector and overcome its many hurdles, participants at an official side event, organized Wednesday during the 7th Tokyo International Conference, heard. The…
Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) • “Let’s be visionary. Let’s be bold. Let’s support concrete initiatives to boost science, technology, and innovation in Africa,”- Akinwumi Adesina Science, technology and innovation as…
Gracias al programa Explorer los emprendedores visitarán empresas tecnológicas líderes, recibirán formación en universidades punteras y tendrán la oportunidad de presentar sus proyectos a inversores. • A su vuelta de San Francisco, optarán a 83.000…
Call for Entries: APO Group African Women in Media Award to Recognise Support of Female Journalists for Women's Entrepreneurship in Africa • A USD 2,500 cash prize, an all-expenses paid trip to a prestigious International…
At a special event highlighting the partnership between the African Development Bank and Korea held on the sidelines of the Bank’s Annual Meetings, the role of drone technology to boost food productivity in Africa, was…
BHGE to provide turbomachinery equipment for four FLNG compression trains for BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project; Award is second major contract for Greater Tortue development, expanding on BHGE’s contract for subsea production equipment;…
"Coding must be compulsory, at all levels. The currency of the future is going to be coding...We must democratize technology," Adesina tells Mo Ibrahim Governance Week •Information technology must not be the exclusive privilege of…
These biometric solutions enable the police force to better solve crimes through the electronic collection, storage and processing of fingerprints, palm prints and facial captures New solution enables rapid capture of suspects' biometric data –…