Visa and South African Tourism’s quest to find the continent’s best travel app continues with more than 50 companies and individuals having registered so far for the Africa App Quest competition. To date the majority of the entries have come from
South Africa
Africa’s first fact-checking website launches in S.Africa
Africa's first fact-checking website launched Wednesday in South Africa, a project devised by the AFP Foundation and run in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand to hold the country's leaders accountable. "The website is Africa's first
Smartphones capable of doing AIDS tests?
South African and South Korean researchers are working on making a smartphone capable of doing AIDS tests in rural parts of Africa that are the worst hit by the disease, a researcher said Friday. The team have developed a microscope and an application
South Africa to launch mini satellite for space weather resesarch
CAPE TOWN (Xinhua) -- A mini satellite weighing 1.2 kilograms will be launched from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in November to collect information about space weather, it was learned on Wednesday. Funded by the Department of Science
Join Kenya’s youth mobile community
YoungAfricaLive, a mobile platform community for the youth, has made its entrance into Kenya after launching in Tanzania in December. YoungAfricaLive (YAL) is an initiative of Praekelt Foundation and aims at informing and engaging young people in Africa
Kenya is Africa’s 2nd most active on Twitter
Kenya is the second most active country in Africa on the social networking site Twitter, with 2,476,800 tweets posted in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new research released on Thursday. South Africa led the pack with 5,030,226 tweets in the
Samsung taps into solar powered schooling
(Ken Macharia) Solar powered mobile schools are soon set to make their way into Kenya’s vast semi-arid areas, benefiting thousands of children in these communities, thanks to Samsung. The classrooms are long-haul containers which can be moved around
