TechInAfrica – After launching its third-party fact-checking program in five African countries—Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and South Africa—Facebook has now expanded the program to 10 additional African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, and Ghana.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/facebook-expands-third-party-fact-checking-program-additional-10-afric...
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TechInAfrica – After launching its third-party fact-checking program in five African countries—Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and South Africa—Facebook has now expanded the program to 10 additional African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, and Ghana.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/facebook-expands-third-party-fact-checking-program-additional-10-afric...
TechInAfrica – After launching its third-party fact-checking program in five African countries—Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and South Africa—Facebook has now expanded the program to 10 additional African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, and Ghana.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/facebook-expands-third-party-fact-checking-program-additional-10-afric...
TechInAfrica – Currently in discussion with the Ethiopian government is Eutelsat, the French satellite broadcasting service provider, in regards to the possibility of its latest satellite providing an internet service that covers the African market. Called Konnect and set to launch at the end of December, the satellite will provide broadband internet-connected all across Africa.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/french-ethiopia-satellite-internet-connects-people/?fbclid=IwAR1UsptDF4...
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Cris, Co-Founder of LekkifyPreviously we have had interviewed with Collins Ceanice at Meet The Founders Episode 3, discussed about the overview of the company. Lekkify is an online e-commerce company that helps manufacturing companies globally to sell goods directly to consumers at an affordable/cheap prices. At this opportunity, we will talk with Cris, as also the Co-Founder...
TechInAfrica – The software giant company, SAP is set to train about 1.5 million young Africans this year for its Africa Code Week 2019 initiative. The skills development initiative has trained about 4.1 million African youth by far and this year hopefully it will meet its target for the additional numbers of participants. This year will be the fifth edition of ACW and will be taking place during October. Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/sap-africa-code-week-acw-2019-set-train-1-5...
TechInAfrica – American internet entrepreneur and CEO of Twitter, Jack Patrick Dorsey is planning to visit several African countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, and Ethiopia in November this year. Dorsey said that he will be spending most of his time meeting with African entrepreneurs, including Betelhem Dessie, a young Ethiopian entrepreneur and the Founder of iCog – Anyone Can Code.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/twitter-ceo-visit-several-african-countries-november...
TechInAfrica – Mara Group has launched two first made-in-Africa smartphones – Mara X and Mara Z – as part of its efforts to support Rwanda’s ambitions to become a technology hub in the region. Both of the mobile devices apply Google’s Android operating system and cost $190 and $130, respectively. For more: https://www.techinafrica.com/two-first-made-africa-smartphones-officially-launched-rwanda/Support the show
TechInAfrica – The giant smartphone company Samsung is officially on-board with holographic embedded smartphones after its long-overdue 63-page patent proposal finally gets approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on September, 19th this year. The filing dates back to 2018.For more: https://www.techinafrica.com/samsung-first-smartphone-manufacturer-crossing-holographic-mines/Support the show
TechInAfrica – The country is in need of more women engineers, as reflected by ANAMBRA State deputy governor, Dr. Knkem Okeke. He advocated for the projection of more women’s participation in the engineering profession in Nigeria. He argued that engineering is a major in which women could thrive within it, especially when given an immense amount of support.FOR MORE: https://www.techinafrica.com/nigeria-calls-women-parcipation-engineering-field/Support the show
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Jad Aizarani, CEO and Co-Founder of SmubuSmubu is a music streaming platform that aims to make African music legally and easily accessible to all users in Africa. They are determined to allow artists complete right to their music by fighting online websites that publicly allow users to download artists’ songs without any consent from the artists.Get to know more about h...
TechInAfrica – iphone 11: South African release date revealed. Appearing as the fervent successor of the iPhone X (which took the world by storm, in case you didn’t remember), Apple has announced iPhone 11 that boasts a triple camera system. Apple also claimed that the camera will add tons of capability without complexity—as well as an unprecedented leap of battery life along with ‘a mind‑blowing chip that doubles down on machine learning and pushes the boundaries of what a smartphone can do....
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet José Kimpalou , Co-Founder and Managing Director of WapiMEDWapiMED SARL is a Congolese start-up (DR Congo) founded in April 2016 and based in Kinshasa. The start-up was founded by two Congolese entrepreneurs: José Zefu Kimpalou and Steve Nkashama. WapiMED is an African startup developing eHealth solutions aiming to ease access to quality healthcare in the African sub-Saharan ...
TechInAfrica – The South African lifestyle network created “by young people for young people”, TRACE Mobile announced earlier this week that it was launching the TRACE Troops initiative. Listen now for more details! FOR MORE: www.techinafrica.comSupport the show
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Elvis Silayo, Founder of PayChapPayChap is a smart, innovative and cashless payment platform in Tanzania. It is built around the need of Tanzanian consumer that incorporates peer to peer transactions, merchant payment services, bill payments, recharge feature and a range of other social and lifestyle feature favouring a growing network of users and retail partners in Tanzania...
TechInAfrica – When it comes to fintech, you might be likely to think about the USA, the UK or even Europe as the centre of the world while it’s clearly Africa. This is something well known by African tech-sector entrepreneurs such as Mzi Khumalo, Sibusiso Shabalala, and Segun Adeyemi. We will now give you three reasons why fintech, the people who embrace it and the companies that create it, are the positive driving force behind change in Africa. Listen now!FOR MORE: www.techinafrica.comSuppo...
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Nass Aoun, CFO and Co-Founder of Flexi AfricaFlexi Africa provides a marketplace for crafters, artists and collectors to sell their handmade creations, vintage goods, and both handmade and non-handmade crafting supplies. The company is based on Zimbabwe, and is looking to expand to more African countries.Get to know more about his journey with the company now! 🎙⚡️Support the ...
TechInAfrica – Kenya has been positioned as the second most innovative country in sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa while Mauritius came in third, this is as indicated by a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization.The report ascribed Kenya’s situation to its inventive qualities, particularly the entrance to credit, and microfinance gross advances where it positions sixth on the planet.Kenya was likewise commended for utilizing development to improve social insurance, particu...
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Uche Anisiuba, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Quadron StudiosQuadron Studios is a Nigeria-based tech company that focuses on 3D animation, visual effects, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Advertising, 2D animations, films, and post-production fields of the entertainment industry.Get to know more about his journey with the company now! ⚡️🎙Visit us for MORE here: ...
TechInAfrica – As part of its efforts to youth empowerment, AirtelTigo hosted young entrepreneurs from Junior Achievement (JA) Ghana, providing them with practical experience in using technology and contribute to their communities. The young entrepreneurs paid a visit to AirtelTigo’s headquarters in Accra which was part of the Start-Up Academy program organized by JA Ghana in collaboration with Aiducation International and Swiss Re Foundation. They had a chance to meet and interacted with the...
Hello African Tech Junkies! Fancy an insightful podcast about the current tech and whats just around the corner? 🚀Meet Segun Olujide, the Co-founder of CyclesCycles is a bike share startup building smart communities and cities. Using smart, shared bicycles,we are looking to build healthy, productive and green communities.Get to know more about his journey with the company now! 🎙⚡️ Visit us for MORE here: www.techinafrica.comSupport the show
TechInAfrica – WhatsApp and Telegram are instant messaging apps most used in the world. They enable people around the world to text chat, video chat, and share files over their networks conveniently and easily. However, Symantec’s report on these networks reveals worrying findings.According to the report, ‘Media file jacking’ flaw has affected the WhatsApp and Telegram instant apps for Android. In other words, files shared via these apps are at risk of being exposed and manipulated by ‘malici...
TechInAfrica – After launching its third-party fact-checking program in five African countries—Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and South Africa—Facebook has now expanded the program to 10 additional African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, and Ghana.Know more here: https://www.techinafrica.com/facebook-expands-third-party-fact-checking-program-additional-10-afric...
