Technology transcends national borders, so it shouldn’t be surprising that, in 2020, private technology and telecommunication companies control more data on the average person than governments do. And it’s not just data ownership: Policymakers similarly fall behind in understanding the power of data. That’s a problem, particularly as social media
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$23M Of Angel Fair Africa Deals After 7 Years
On the 5th of November 2020, the 8th Angel Fair Africa will be virtual instead of in Dakar, Senegal due to the global pandemic. $23M of deals have happened over the last seven events which brought selected entrepreneurs to pitch to a room of angel investors whose primary intent was to DO DEALS.
Uganda approves Tullow Oil $575m assets sale to Total
Government has finally allowed Tullow Oil to sell all its stake in Uganda’s oil and gas sector to French oil giant, Total E&P. Tullow in a statement on Wednesday announced that the ministry of Energy and Mineral Development and Uganda Revenue Authority approved the deal valued at $575 million (about Shs
essDOCS and AfricaPLC partner to accelerate use of digital trade documents in Africa
Swieqi, Malta & Johannesburg, South Africa – 15 October 2020 essDOCS, the leading enabler of paperless trade, and AfricaPLC, the innovative B2B / B2G industrial E-commerce marketplace and FinTech platform focused on improving intra-African and cross-border trade, announced today a partnership to accelerate the use of digital trade documents in
Africa’s Mobile Phone And Population Growth In The 21st Century
On the 1st of October 2020, the Global System Mobile Association (GSMA) released their “Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa” report which forecasted the mobile economy in Africa into 2025. A positive outlook to start the month of October and the last quarter of 2020. The highlight of this forecast is that by
China’s BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia
Beijing – Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China’s BGI Group, China’s state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday. The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production
How does today’s tech boom compare with the dotcom era?
In troubled times people take comfort in the familiar. Covid-19 has upended many things, but tech-stock prices have proved impressively invulnerable. The Nasdaq, a tech-heavy stock index, has leapt by 25% since the beginning of 2020, taking its total rise over the past decade to over 400%. Were it not
