Promoting Africa
Mara Group, a new tech company based in Rwanda, Africa, made history last month, by launching the first manufactured and assembled smartphones in Africa: Mara X & Mara Z. "While smartphones are assembled in other African nations (Egypt, Algeria, and South Africa all have assembly plants), according to Reuters, those companies all import the components." Mara is the first company…
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As one of the largest social media outlets in the world, Instagram is becoming the top social media outlet for Africans that love and breath art. Instagram began to take off in 2010, first only exclusively on iPhones and then eventually opening up their platform to Androids. Instagram created the ability for everyday, regular people…
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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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Microsoft recently announced that it plans to open two data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town as part of an expansion that stretches across 40 regions globally. One of the reasons why internet connections in Africa often appear slow is because much of the content being requested is hosted on servers outside the continent. Indeed, companies…
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Andrew Kagia is the creator of Nairobi X, a video game set in Nairobi (Kenya) representing a character Otero, who is part of the Recce Squad, and who’s duty is to save the city from an alien invasion. The game begins at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, where Otero starts his mission after being briefed.
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A group of ICT students from Uganda’s Makerere University have come up with a way to start cars with fingerprints rather than car keys.
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Anthony Mutua of Kenya has found the idea to use the energy created by the movements of our body to generate electricity and therefore recharge batteries of mobile phones or other electronic devices. The battery is placed in the sole of the shoes and the piezoelectric system activates with each press of the feet on…
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