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Developing Countries Need to Wake Up To the Risks of New Technologies

BY PROFESSOR RALPH HAMANN Technological advances associated with the fourth industrial revolution – including artificial intelligence – allow the automation of an increasingly wide array of processes in increasingly interactive and sophisticated.

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Liberia Govt. Launches Information Network to Aid Transparency

The Liberian government in a bid to enhance and promote accountability, transparency and easy access of government information by anyone locally and internationally has launched an e-network. This information was.

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Kenya Encourages Africa to Unite on Global ICT Agenda

Kenya has challenged the African continent to unite and speak with one voice at global ICT decision-making forums. ICT Cabinet Secretary Mr. Joe Mucheru cited lack of a common stand.

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Over Half of Sub-Saharan Population Will Be Connected to Mobile Service by 2025

In most parts of Sub-saharan Africa, mobile phones are easier to access than even basic things such as electricity. A decade after these devices began to spread in Africa, they.

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COMESA Equips Women Entrepreneurs with Digital Networking Platform

The planning process of the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MWS) Digital Platform for women entrepreneurs has begun following the commencement of the workshop held at the COMESA Secretariat in.

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Five Nigerian Teenage Girls Win World Tech Competition in San Francisco

A team of five (5) teenage girls representing Nigeria has defeated teams from the US, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to win the 2018 Technovation world pitch junior division which.

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Zambia Reveals Plan to Develop Blockchain Land Tilting Program

Zambia’s lands ministry has collaborated with American internet retailer, Overstock, to build a blockchain land titling program. The program will be built by Overstock’s blockchain-property rights subsidiary, Medici Land Governance..

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Africa’s Play at Redefining Crypto-Currency

By ANEROBI Chimezie Lotachi Towards the end of 2017, the trending digital currency; Bitcoin was successfully able to hit the $14,000 exchange mark on the exchange rate conversions scale to.

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Nigeria: United Bank for Africa Launches Chat Banker on WhatsApp

Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) has launched its chat banker, Leo in pilot mode on WhatsApp and will be fully available to customers by September 1st, 2018..

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ECA To Promote Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa Using ICT

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is partnering with Ant Financial (Ant) and International Financial Corporation (IFC) to promote digital financial inclusion in Africa using investments and technical.

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