Promoting Africa
Jack Ma, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Chinese Internet giant, Alibaba, has announced the creation of a $10 million fund to support young African entrepreneurs. Jack Ma, who was on his first visit to Africa mid July, attended the last Youth Connekt Africa Summit that took place in Kigali from July 19th to 21st…
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Africa has now reclaimed its digital identity. We are living an historical moment as Africa’s first ever domain has been launched, and made available to the general public. The DotAfrica is the new Top Level Domain (TLD) for the African continent. It is an African initiative created by Africans for Africans and open to the worldwide…
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Ghana entered the space race last Friday, sending it's first satellite into space. Doing so, the country becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to launch satellite into Orbit. The satellite called Ghanasat-1 was released from the International Space Station on July 7 2017, nearly a month after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center on Elon…
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Vision 2030 In 2008, the Kenyan government gave the go-ahead for the construction of the "Silicon Savannah", the torchbearer of the Kenya 2030 project. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the world economy has undergone a series of significant transformations. We are more in a unipolar system, with the predominance of the Western economic…
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Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries. Kenya’s average data connection speed in the first quarter of 2017 was 13.7 megabits per second (almost twice as fast as the global average). At that speed, Kenya beats the…
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According to the African Development Bank’s Africa Visa Openness Report (which measures and ranks countries by how easy it is for visitors from other African states to gain entry), there have been some improvements in terms of visa openness. In 2016, over a third of countries introduced more liberal visa policies. Seychelles remains in the top position,…
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Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has introduced a first for Africa, a smart parking system to solve the lack of parking space for the hundreds of thousands of cars in the city. The project which cost the state about 52 million birr (about 2.2 million US dollars),is a system which uses modern Chinese technology to park…
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