JOHANNESBURG, November 2020 – Cloud and app store support play a critical role in ensuring the success of e-commerce platforms in Africa. This was the view from Lulu Haangala Wood, co-founder and CMO of Afrishop, an e-commerce hub offering convenient, quality shopping and affordable logistics to the African market. She was speaking at the Huawei […]
Kampala, November 2020 – There are significant business opportunities in the mobile-broadband space in building an ecosystem of affordable mobile devices to support user migration to 4G and 5G cellular network technology. This was the message emerging from the 5th Huawei Africa Mobile Broadband Salon taking place at the online Africacom Africa Tech Festival from […]
Elo Umeh LAGOS – In 2018, African start-ups were celebrating: they had raised nearly $1.2 billion in equity – a 108% increase from the previous year. And last year, Nigerian financial-technology (fintech) companies set an even more impressive record, raising $360 million from international investors in a single month (November). Making the most of the Nigerian tech sector’s current […]
November 5, 2020. NRD Companies, together with the partner Private Sector Foundation Uganda, has prepared a digital transformation plan aimed at streamlining microfinance supervision and regulation processes for Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA). The plan has been prepared under the project dedicated to the support of institutional capacity building in the field of consumer rights in East African countries. […]
By Olga Kiconco, Lead Innovation Strategy & Consulting The Innovation Village – Kampala Uganda. It is believed that as early as 800BC during Ancient Greek time, retail trade was already well established in the Angora City Centre. Certain days and places were designated for open markets where the local peasants accessed consumers who wanted to […]
Daron Acemoglu, CAMBRIDGE – The US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google may be the first salvo in a forthcoming barrage of antitrust actions directed at Big Tech. Curbing these companies’ power is one of those rare issues that receives bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. Though the Google lawsuit focuses narrowly on “anticompetitive and exclusionary […]
Kieran Whyte, Partner, Head of the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Practice, Johannesburg, and Marc Fèvre, Partner, London, Baker McKenzie. Across Africa, access to power is hampered by the lack of access to competitive funding, the dire state of the continent’s utilities infrastructure and the need for energy policy and legislation to be adapted so that […]
Kampala, 27th October 2020 – On-demand delivery app Glovo has launched its operations in Kampala, a move that is part of its continued market expansion strategy. Glovo entered Africa in 2018, Kenya was the second country for the continent after Morocco. The expansion into Uganda will make it the second market in East Africa for the company, […]
What is the future of ICT and IT in Africa, what opportunities does Africa provide for ICT and IT and will Vertiv tap into such opportunities? Africa is home to emerging, high-potential digital economies and is potentially one of the fastest growing continents regarding data traffic. Out of necessity, Sub-Saharan Africa has become a global […]
On 18 August 2020, Shenzhen Metro Lines 6 and 10 were officially opened. They are the first to comprehensively apply Huawei’s Urban Rail Cloud Solution in China, as well as the first batch of metro lines with full 5G coverage in Shenzhen. They also create a record in the rail transportation industry to use artificial […]
At the start of this year, while the coronavirus was ravaging the foundations and systems of the world, there’s no part of our core as the human race that was not tested and suffocated in the process ranging from health systems to social to political to religious, economic, financial systems, communication, recreation, travel and trade […]
PostBank Uganda, a financial institution that is committed to empowering people and transform their lives has unveiled its first-ever digital campaign dubbed Digital Banking, Beyi Powa, in an effort to increase the number of customers transacting with its digital platforms. Unveiling the campaign to the public Julius Kakeeto, the Managing Director, PostBank Uganda said he […]
Huawei Uganda has today awarded three students who represented Uganda in the Huawei ICT global competition Africa stage. These students took first position and are to represent Africa at the global stage next year. Under the theme of “Connection, Glory, Future”, the four-day competitions that kicked off on 10th September 2020 covered over 14 countries […]