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Tech Program Turns Low Income S. Africa Girls Into High Achievers

Women are woefully underrepresented in technology, science, engineering and mathematics jobs in South Africa. But for the last decade, a homegrown, UNICEF-supported program has worked to bring 11,000...

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Tech Startups Move Forward in Africa 

The Afrobytes and Viva Tech conferences in Paris this week have provided an opportunity to look at the progress that high-tech startups have made in Africa, where fundraising is booming. According to...

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African Women in Tech Working to Close Digital Divide

Women from across Africa are meeting at the annual Women in Tech Africa Week, hoping to bring more women into the tech industry and combat inequalities in technology use and access, especially for...

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African Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence took center stage as African female technology experts met at Women in Tech Week in Ghana to promote women's involvement in the field.  When Lily Edinam Botsyoe was studying...

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When Did You Last See an African Video Game Hero? 

What’s wrong with being a plucky hero running from demon monkeys or a glamorous model in dress up games? Players too often get sucked into worlds full of violence and unhealthy body images, according...

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Malawi is Home to Africa's First Drone Academy

Malawi this month opened the first African Drone and Data Academy, with support from the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF.  The academy aims to improve drone technology skills across Africa,...

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Investors, Entrepreneurs Meet in Silicon Valley to Discuss African Investment

Barbara Birungi Mutabazi has a vision: Train Ugandan women to code and do other technology work."The beauty of this is that even if there are not enough jobs in Uganda, if you have the right skills,...

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Recruiting Tech Volunteers to Fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia   

A Washington-based software developer is recruiting other techies to combat the spread of the new coronavirus in his native Ethiopia, following the lead of countries such as China and South Korea with...

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StartUP Africa, E-Pay, S1, E1

This scene-setter episode asks the questions, “What is a Startup?” and “What does ‘Starting Lean’ mean?” Through the lens of e-pay startups, episode one illustrates the problems that startups solve and...

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StartUP Africa, Ride Share, S1, E2

Through the challenges and victories of young African entrepreneurs, we learn how tech startups are launching ride-sharing businesses to address the problems of traffic congestion, safety, and cost of...

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StartUP Africa, Opportunity, S1, E3

From the workplace to the educational and environmental ecosystems, we look at how tech startups change the way we learn, the way we do business, and the way we live.

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StartUP Africa, Farm to City, S1, E4

From Agritech, to moving goods across the continent, to fulfilling the African energy needs, young entrepreneurs push beyond limitations set before them to create innovative ways of using technology to...

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StartUP Africa, Health-Tech, S1, E5

Solving some of the most challenging health problems of the African continent, Health Tech startups are addressing problems ranging from access to medical care, infant and maternal mortality and rapid...

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StartUP Africa, Rise Up, S1, E6

In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, we follow up with CEOs featured throughout season one. They share how coronavirus impacted their businesses, how they adapted, and what opportunities arose as a...

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A Look at Why Ghana Is Attracting IT Firms 

Ghanaian social media users were in a state of ecstasy earlier this month when the U.S. social networking service, Twitter, announced it was setting up its first African office in Ghana.    President...

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Cameroonian Startup's Online Veterinary App Helps Remote Breeders

A Cameroonian company has created a veterinary counseling app designed to help farmers and ranchers who live far away from veterinarians to detect animal diseases and give them guidance online....

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Millions of Nigerian Twitter Users Blocked as Ban Takes Hold 

Millions of Nigerians struggled Saturday to access Twitter, a day after authorities suspended the service in response to the company's deletion of a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for violating...

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Internet Restrictions Hold Back Africa's Economic Growth, Study Finds

A report by a non-profit group says Africa needs to increase internet access to boost its economies, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The advocacy group found that while Africa's...

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Analysts: China Expanding Influence in Africa Via Telecom Network Deals

Telecommunications networks funded and built by China are taking over Africa's cyberspace, a dependence that analysts suggest puts Beijing in a position to exert political influence in some of the...

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Some Nigerian-based Experts Warn of China's Growing Influence in African...

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei says it wants to train up to 3 million African youths to work with cutting-edge digital technology such as artificial intelligence. Already, Nigerian students...

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