Vodacom's parent company Vodafone has announced a partnership with Google to bring cloud and cybersecurity services and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools and devices to customers in Africa and Europe.
RedAcademy's founder and MD Jessica Hawkey spoke to Connecting Africa, as part of a Women in Tech series, about how digital skills development programs are growing Africa's tech talent pipeline while creating jobs for the youth.
Kreative Campus' operations and finance lead, Keitesi Aisha, talks to Connecting Africa as part of our Women in Tech series about how skills development can make Africa's tech ecosystem more inclusive.
Uber's Country Manager for Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, Marjorie Saint-Lot, shares how the ride-hailing company is approaching public-private partnerships, environmentally friendly initiatives and gender inclusion in Africa.
A new report from Africa Tech Festival and Connecting Africa puts a spotlight on the top 100 African leaders in the telecoms and technology sector in 2023.
South Africa's minister of communications and digital technologies wants to change a law that requires global communications companies to be 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups if they want to operate in the country, opening the door for Starlink.
SpaceX's satellite Internet service Starlink has hiked subscription prices in Nigeria due to excessive inflation in the West African country.
Elon Musk's Starlink satellite Internet service is making waves across Africa, while it navigates competitive dynamics with local telecom companies. He recently engaged with various African leaders.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is in talks with Starlink's founder, Elon Musk, about introducing the satellite Internet service in the country.
_(1).jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "Margherita Della Valle, Vodafone Group CEO; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.")
.jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "ICASA CEO Tshiamo Maluleka-Disemelo")
_(1).jpg?width=100&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "Picture of Matshepo Sehloho")
.jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "An M-Pesa transaction between an agent and customer in Nairobi, Kenya")
_(1)_(1).jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "ECOWAS representatives from Ghana, Togo and Benin")
.jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "CitizenApp's interface")
_Solly_Malatsi.jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "South African DCDT Minister Solly Malatsi.")
_(1).jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "Margherita Della Valle, Vodafone Group CEO; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.")
.jpg?width=300&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "Panelists discussing the digitalizing financial markets, Bloomberg's Future of Finance event in Johannesburg, South Africa.")
.jpg?width=150&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
.jpg?width=150&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale){kind=spacer}
_(1).jpg?width=150&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "Jessica Hawkey, founder and MD of RedAcademy.")
_(1)_(1)_(1).jpg?width=800&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale){kind=logo}
.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
_(1).jpg?width=800&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
_Solly_Malatsi.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale "South African DCDT Minister Solly Malatsi.")