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Africa

    Zimbabwe gets cashless transactions via its first Universal Electronic Payment System

    Zimbabwe gets cashless transactions via its first Universal Electronic Payment System

    • Elly Okutoyi
    • 13 years ago
    Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan Africa

    Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan Africa

    • Jamillah Knowles
    • 13 years ago
    Globa’s SMS money transfer service targets Africa’s unbanked population – and the world

    Globa’s SMS money transfer service targets Africa’s unbanked population – and the world

    • Sam Wakoba
    • 13 years ago
    Namibia becomes Africa’s second country to launch a 4G LTE data service

    Namibia becomes Africa’s second country to launch a 4G LTE data service

    • Elly Okutoyi
    • 13 years ago
    19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device

    19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device

    • Galgallo Duba Fayo
    • 13 years ago
    Nigeria to ban use of foreign IT products to promote homegrown industry

    Nigeria to ban use of foreign IT products to promote homegrown industry

    • Galgallo Duba Fayo
    • 13 years ago
    A new SMS-based monitoring system aims to cut Africa’s childbirth mortality rates

    A new SMS-based monitoring system aims to cut Africa’s childbirth mortality rates

    • Sam Wakoba
    • 13 years ago
    Great spoof app highlights the horrors of oil pollution with gamification, QR codes and geolocation

    Great spoof app highlights the horrors of oil pollution with gamification, QR codes and geolocation

    • Martin SFP Bryant
    • 13 years ago
    Charge your phone with your shoe? New Kenyan technology makes it possible.

    Charge your phone with your shoe? New Kenyan technology makes it possible.

    • Elly Okutoyi
    • 13 years ago
    Kenyan coffee farmers will receive storm warnings via a new SMS alert system

    Kenyan coffee farmers will receive storm warnings via a new SMS alert system

    • Sam Wakoba
    • 13 years ago
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