Mastercard Foundation Creates a $2M fund to Support Social Entrepreneurship

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Auto24 is a direct-to-consumer used automobile firm that introduces new, creative technologies to ensure transactions are carried out in a transparent and secure manner. Auto24 is an African used vehicle startup, Africar Group, and Stellantis announce the opening of Auto24 activities in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. By 2030, there will be 1.7 billion people living in…
Application for the 12-week high-touch RIoT Accelerator Program is open to African Internet of Things (IoT) entrepreneurs. Through the RIoT Accelerator Programme, innovators can study, partner, and launch their products by engaging with an industry consortium of over 90 firms spanning the IoT technology stack. This enhances the effectiveness of traditional business development tools. Numerous…
The Kenya Development Corporation (KDC) has teamed up with the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) to help the manufacturing sector’s small and medium-sized businesses recover. KDC revealed that it has initiated a plan to engage SMEs countrywide to sensitize them on KDC’s products and services in order to understand their financial needs during the engagement,…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Viasat (NASDAQ: VSAT) launched a new cooperation on Wednesday to help 10 million people gain access to the internet globally, including 5 million in Africa. Global communications giant Viasat is the first satellite partner to collaborate with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative. Together, the two organizations will deepen Airband’s work in the…
South Africa has asked a court to fine Huawei Technologies’ local unit for violating hiring rules and to order the company to change its practices, the labor department announced on Friday. According to the department, approximately 90 percent of the company’s employees were foreign nationals, in violation of “employment equity” regulations that impose a 40…
Digital Lab Africa call for projects is open to any professional or individual in multimedia creation: artists, producers, start-up, SMEs, collectives, students or entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa. The applicants have to be based in this region or being nationals of one of the Sub-Saharan African countries, provided the project development is mostly implemented locally. Digital Lab Africa is looking for projects at…