Africa's biggest AI gathering heads to Lagos, where researchers, startups and innovators will shape the continent's AI future.

Recently VALR raised $50 million in Series B equity funding. We caught up with Farzam Ehsani, CEO and co-founder of VALR, to learn more about their expansion plans and other plans for the future. It ...

Aldai Maryanne Kitany, a member of parliament, has submitted a motion to the National Assembly calling for the regulation of internet billing by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by the ICT Ministry.

The 45 000 km long, 2Africa subsea fibre cable is expected to reach coastal land at Amanzimtoti near Durban on Tuesday, 7 Thursday 2023. 2Africa is a consortium cable backed by Meta (Facebook) that ...

Long before cell phones (mobile phones) were popular in Afrika, and even in Western countries such as the USA, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo) already had a reported 3,000 mobile ...

According to a report by Google, there's an increasing demand for professional Afrikan software developers. Titled "Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021," the report provides some insight into the ...

For years, StarSat, the pay-TV operator in South Africa, has lived in the shadows of MultiChoice’s DStv, often perceived as the underdog in an industry where market dominance is fiercely guarded. When ...

As a young boy, Nando de Freitas was always captivated by the way machines behaved, while growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe. From studying electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

The story, according to Paul Makin, former M-PESA architect and professional in the UK banking sector, started before 2007. Makin says that the “original team was Nick Hughes and me. I came up with ...

How Professor Oliver Udemmadu Ogbonna Mobisson was among the first to lay the foundations for Nigeria’s digital technology ecosystem as we know it today. When reading, listening to, or watching ...

Uncomfortable Conversations, a ground-breaking series on iAfrikan Bytes, explores the difficulties faced by SMEs, black-owned ICT enterprises, and startups in South Africa. Casting the spotlight on ...

The Melisiwe School Computer Lab Project provides underprivileged schools in South Africa with fully functional computer labs, helping students access Computer Applications Technology (CAT) and ...