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The African Innovation Foundation (AIF)announced the finalists of the prestigious Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2014.Ten African innovators have created practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems, from a domestic waste biogas system to a wafer matrix for paediatric antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment. Chosen from almost 700 applications from 42 countries, the finalists…

Twenty-four people who designed and advanced the Internet as the global, world-changing platform that it is today will be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. The Internet Hall of Fame was launched in 2012 by the Internet Society and this year’s ceremony will be held in Hong Kong today 8 April. Representing 13 countries,…

    Ericsson recently announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with Team SOP from Nigeria and Team WorkMode from South Africa named as semi-finalists in the company category and the student category respectively. Team SOP developed an application that allows users to receive push notifications on availability and analytics on electricity in their area….

    GSF Global Accelerator a leading tech Accelerator based in India is extending her program from April to include African Start-ups. This is a 13 week program to foster innovation in the fast growing global digital economy. It aims to provide select start-ups with unparalleled access to venture and business networks, personalized & intensive…

  Innovation forum 2014 is set to provide answers as to how ICT-Led Innovation can drive competitiveness and growth in Agriculture, Education, Employment and Job creation in Nigeria.   In line with the overall vision to foster innovation in Nigeria, the Cross River State Government in partnership with leading tech organizations-Microsoft and Nokia in collaboration…

    I am of the opinion that perhaps the ugly, unfortunate and regrettable incident where many young Nigerians lost their lives in a stampede during the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise could have been avoided if the government had taken youth unemployment a bit more seriously and as a top priority over the years….

  Mr. Olusegun Aganga, Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment will keynote the inaugural Angel Fair West Africa (AFWA) which is bringing together entrepreneurial businesses and active investors from across Africa to “do deals” at the Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos on Sunday 30th and Monday 31st March 2014. “To have the Minister Aganga keynote…

  How big data is being used in the fight against card fraud  Financial institutions have been working hard to implement technologies which better protect them and their customers. Innovations such as chip and PIN have made cards more secure, while the introduction of two-factor authentication has also greatly helped. However, none of these systems…

  Technology and innovation are driving many economies in no small measure. According to the Journal for Sustainable Development (vol. 4 no. 6, December 2011) entrepreneurship generally and technological entrepreneurship in particular are now considered as the engine for economic development. Most developed and emerging economies and developing countries have adopted Technology Business Incubation to…

    “For developing countries in Africa like Nigeria, not only our mobile phones should be Smart, our cities ought to be smart too, for me this is the challenge of the government at different levels” While many cities are becoming ‘smart’ enabling development that makes life easy for her people to move around from…

By VARAIDZO AUDREY MURERIWA   Editor’s note: This post by Varaidzo Audrey Mureriwa first appeared as part of the “Technology in Africa – 2014 Digest”It is available as a FREE eBook for download here     The story of Africa’s booming economic growth has dominated the press for a while. Africa is the fastest growing…

    More than ever before, Africans are turning to ICT-supported learning to grow their economies. In 2013, the eLearning Africa Report found that 40% of African technology-assisted learning professionals were using ICTs specifically for skills training, up from 18% the previous year. The benefit of ICT-supported learning is that it allows employers to provide…

    Over the years,the Nigerian electoral processes have been marred with several irregularities that make for very undemocratic nature of electing her rulers.The people’s choices are in most cases not reflected in the results announced at the end of elections in Nigeria.Just as the 2015 elections are close,it becomes very important that ways are…

  Often times this group of professionals are less honoured, remunerated and rewarded in the society despite the fact that their role in the society is very key. The journalists play very vital part in the growth and development of every nation. We see in western world they are feared, revered, well respected and are…

  Nigeria no doubt is in dire need of medical interventions. From the colleague who died of the simplest medical condition, to the random accident victim who didn’t even make it to the hospital before they gave up, everyone has directly or indirectly experienced poor medical attention.Today we see new technologies and the mobile devices…

WELCOME ADDRESS BY CHRIS UWAJE (FNCS) PRESIDENT, INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS OF NIGERIA (ISPON) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESIDENT DINNER 2014. VENUE: SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, IKEJA, LAGOS. FEB. 28, 2014 Theme: “Software: As Sustainable Intellectual Property for the Development of Nigeria” FOCUS: Software Nigeria: Innovate or Perish? It is my pleasure to welcome you all to our President…

      Entries to the 2014 African Blogger Awards, the continent’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and influence through data analysis, are open to bloggers, Instagrammers, Tweeters and YouTubers across Africa. The Awards have been divided into 36 categories, providing the opportunity for influencers on these platforms to…

    Synclie applies sophisticated automatic listening logic to television content recognition, pulls and pushes contextual and actionable content and ad serving through social persona targeting and natural language processing patented AJ technologies that allow brands and their agencies to launch interest and demographically targeted campaigns and get real results to a wider engaged audience….

  Erudite scholar and a past president of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Prof. Charles Uwadia has accepted to preside over the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum (NDSF) on Internet Governance for Development 2014. Confirming this to newsmen in Lagos, the Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa Media group, the organizers of the event, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke,…

  We got this report from Cyberschuulnews that the University of Lagos has commissioned a high speed internet access infrastructure under a partnership with MainOne Ltd on whose initiative the project was conceived.The infrastructure was commissioned to service on February 1,2014. In less than three years, MainOne has emerged the preferred provider of bandwidth connectivity…

  Programos Foundation Nigeria in collaboration with the International Association of African Non-Governmental Organisations with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) India and Public Interest Registry, will host an eNGO workshop for 100 Nigerian based grassroots NGOs. The workshop will focus on training the organisations on capacity building using information and Communications Technologies. The…

    Last week we brought you a report on the launch of Lenovo Smartphones in Nigeria, Yesterday in Lagos at a well-attended event, Lenovo launched its smartphone portfolios in Nigeria .Nigerian consumers will be the first in Africa to get their hands on these seven models, including the flagship Vibe X smartphone which will…

    Few days ago,Google publicly announced the winners of the 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge.As one of the judges  for Sub Saharan Africa on the just concluded Cloud Challenge,It is really interesting to have seen the level of ingenuity shown by these young Africans in their applications.This shows that there is a huge opportunity…