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These are tech trending news across Sub-Saharan Africa you need to know this week, February 24- 28, 2020:
These are tech trending news across Sub-Saharan Africa you need to know this week, February 24- 28, 2020:
The 2020 edition of Social Media Week Lagos, Africa’s largest tech and media gathering, kicks off on Monday (today) at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos.
The annual event will run from Monday, February 24th to Friday, February 28th, 2019 and feature globally recognised brands, leading business executives, pop culture luminaries, and others.
The Incubation program will support 3 startups which will be unveiled on the Launch on Monday (today). During the call for applications, the Hub said it received over 160 applications which were shortlisted to 3 startups ‘through a rigorous selection process’.
The program will last for 6 months.
Through Africa Digitization Conference, Ghana would gather the world to discuss how tourism and trade in Africa and among other continents can drive continent's economy with digitization as a major catalyst.
The Africa Digitization Conference on Tourism and trade is slated for the 24-26 August at the Accra International Conference Center.
The event seeks to create a platform where a multi-stakeholder dialogue will put everyone on an equal footing to produce policy documents to help the AfCTA office, governments and the private sector to plug in on using tourism and trade as major drivers.
Ghana has been at the center of the world's attention and the new baby for investors across the continent.
Each year, the AFRICA CEO FORUM AWARDS recognise the leaders, businesses, and investors whose strategy and performance have contributed the most to Africa’s growth in the past year through five awards, from ”CEO of the Year” to “Disrupter of the Year”.
On the 'Disrupter of the Year' list are Flutterwave Technology Solutions Limited, 54gene, Fonroche Lighting, Baobab+, Daystar Power Group, and Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM).
Kenya's Safaricom is planning to consider its Huawei to power its 5G network this year.
The company’s acting chief executive said last Wednesday.
The Carbon Disrupt Fund has been set up to address the lack of funding and support holding back budding entrepreneurs in Africa for a 10% equity deal.
On Monday, the company also introduced a USSD service to its platform, making it even easier for individuals that have little or no access to smartphones or the internet, to access the financial services they need such as instant loans and easy-to-use payments.
Ecobank Group has opened applications for the 3rd edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge.
The pan-African bank said it welcomes submissions from all start-ups and developers in any of Africa’s 54 countries to enter its 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge.
The Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) has announced the first cohort of 12 EdTech Fellows, companies that will benefit from the Centre's support to expand their operations and improve secondary teaching and learning across the continent.
The Fellows were selected after an Africa-wide Request for Proposals late last year. Innovators were invited to submit proposals that either:
The selected EdTech companies are:
TechCabal will host entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and corporate organisations, including telcos and financial institutions, at its next TC Townhall, on Friday.
The event, TC Townhall: Emerging Tech - AI & Blockchain, is scheduled to hold February 28th, 2020.
TC Townhall: Emerging Tech will look at how businesses and individuals across the continent can maximise the benefits of emerging technologies, specifically AI and Blockchain.
In 2019, MTN Nigeria maintained its lead as the largest telecoms service provider in the country with 68.76 million subscribers, representing 4.6% growth year-on-year.
MTN Nigeria is followed by Globalcom, Airtel Nigeria, and 9mobile respectively.
Between January 2019 and December 2019, Globalcom Nigeria gained 6.1 million customers, while Airtel Nigeria added more 5.2 million subscribers. 9Mobile, on the other hand, lost 2.7 million subscribers.
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