Telling Africa's Stories
Originally published on the MEST Africa Blog. On November 8, 2018, MEST Africa and Innocircle organized an Airbus Bizlab Aerospace Challenge Meetup in Abidjan to spotlight the budding aerospace industry in Francophone Africa, answer questions about launching a startup in the space, and introduce the Africa4Future initiative by Airbus to aspiring entrepreneurs. We were lucky to have Marouane Jebbar, Founder […]
Originally published on the MEST Africa Blog. Airbus BizLab’s Africa4Future Challenge has returned to Africa for a second time, in partnership with ecosystem facilitator GIZ Make-IT in Africa, pan-African incubator MEST Africa, and innovation consultancy Innocircle. The challenge launched in Toulouse, France in October 2018, and opened a call for applications from early-stage African aerospace startups, which closes […]
Originally published on the MEST Africa Blog. Airbus BizLab’s Africa4Future Challenge returns to Africa for a second time, in partnership with ecosystem facilitator GIZ Make-IT in Africa, pan-African incubator MEST Africa, and innovation consultancy Innocircle. The challenge launched in Toulouse, France in October 2018, and opened a call for applications from early-stage African aerospace startups. Call for applications […]
Originally published on Business2Community. It’s a known fact that online form builders can make your life as a web user a lot easier. Whether you own or manage a website, organize events, run surveys or even collect payments; online forms are easy, quick and ideal, especially for people who aren’t overly tech-savvy or neck-deep into […]
Published on iAfrikan, TechNova and Top Farmer Kenya. I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no organic food. Do you? Listen, We will need to produce 70% more food than we do today to feed 2.3 billion people that will be added to the world’s population by 2050. And we will have to […]
Originally published on AfricaBusiness2020 via Skrife. Mercy Orangi is the Technology Evangelist at Andela. Here, she talks about Andela’s pan-African expansion plans and platforms they’re building to support more female technologists on the continent. Earlier this year, Andela held its Women In Technology (WIT) Summit in Nigeria. What was the motivation behind that event? This was the first WIT […]
Here’s What Robotic Process Automation Means And Why Large Banks Are Turning To It Recently in the Nigeria tech space, we celebrated Union Bank as the first Nigerian bank to incorporate Robotic Process Automation (RPA). In my excitement about it and other new digital banking innovations (check this one out) in Nigeria’s banking/tech sector, I sometimes forget that the mass […]
Originally on Business2Community. Conference calls and online meetings are great until one person drops off or the connectivity gets so bad you can only hear yourself. With most companies running distributed teams these days, conference calls and online meetings have become a necessary part of daily business. After these calls are finished comes the arduous […]
Published on TechWebSpace. The best managers aren’t the ones who only get results, but ones who develop and uplift their employees in the process. These managers care about their employees’ personal and career growth, and they invest financially and otherwise to make sure their employees get better each day. This way, as their company expands, […]
Published on TechWebSpace. This week, Google wowed the world with the features and developments it announced at IO 8, especially regarding the Google Assistant. What is more obvious than ever is Google’s emphasis on artificial intelligence. The voice assistant is improving in geometric proportions, becoming more human in its functionality. All of this brings to mind […]
As obvious and as simple as it sounds, the best way to be ready for the future is to prepare for it. A lot has been written about the future of the workplace. Most of it answering questions like: What will it look like? What skills will be most valuable? What roles will be in […]
Originally published on Business2Community and TechWebSpace. We live in interesting times where every industry is changing rapidly because of the infusion of technology in some way – Retail, Transportation, Healthcare, Agriculture, Fashion, Manufacturing – no one is exempt. To build a business that survives and thrives in these times, entrepreneurs and their employees must stay up-to-date with social media and digital […]
Published on iAfrikan, Business2Community and TechNova. Meet Kiah. Kiah is a 25-year-old freelance writer and graphic designer who spends most of her time on her smartphone. She, like the average digital consumer, spends up to 3 hours in the day on social networking and instant messaging. Kiah loves watching videos on YouTube and scrolling through […]
Published on Techpoint and Tech Nova. Too many times, when we speak about the future of Africa or the future of technology in Africa, we do so with an air of ignorant homogeneity. We speak of Africa like we speak of one country, and in so doing we [sometimes] forget that there are 54 countries […]
Originally published on B2C. The abundance of data generated in recent years — by individuals and businesses — means we no longer have to make haphazard business decisions and ‘hope for the best’. Now, we can employ more systematic and deliberate measures. At a point, the problem was how to access relevant data. Now, the […]
Published on Business2Community. Care, Computers and Clean Energy If you’re thinking 2026 is still far away, stop and think again. It really is less than 10 years away, which means we are as close to 2010 as we are to 2026. Let this sink in; it will be useful as you read through this forecast. […]
Published on Business2Community. Why should you care about Machine Learning? What impact will it have on your personal life, business or community? In this 5-minute read, I attempt to simplify Machine Learning to the basics by differentiating between Supervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning. Let’s get started! Machine learning has become one of the most talked […]
Originally published on iAfrikan & B2C. What’s real and what’s hype in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? As with all new technology, emotions run wild and our excitement gets the better of us. The hype is everywhere — projections of an AI-ruled planet akin to something out of a science fiction movie and computers that can […]
Originally published on B2C. The AI talent pool is shallow. But, just how shallow is it? According to this article on Bloomberg, in December 2017, Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese internet conglomerate, published its findings that put the estimate of global AI talent at 200,000 to 300,000 people who were either AI researchers or industry […]
Published on Business2Community. The popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has grown exponentially in recent years. According to Gartner, a research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500, Artificial Intelligence will be one of the top five investment priorities for more than 30 percent of Chief Information Officers by 2020, as they find […]
Published on EzineArticles. Warpath Strategy On The Workplace of the Future In 2013, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, Faculty at the University of Oxford, published a report titled ‘The Future of Employment’. The study presented in the report examined the susceptibility of 702 varied occupations to computerisation. According to their estimates, about 47% of […]
Published on Business2Community. Artificial Intelligence (AI) used to be just a Sci-Fi concept, something that only existed in movies, books, and pop culture. But as technology developed and human capacity evolved with it, we have been able to design artificially intelligent machines, machines that mirror human behaviour and learn new concepts just the way we can. […]
Published on TechNova and Business2Community. Artificial intelligence is a broad term that covers three areas: deep learning, machine intelligence, and machine learning. Machine learning, the most common of the three, focuses on machines and the data they use to teach themselves. You feed the machine with data and the algorithms enable it to learn; becoming […]
Standard Bank has been in business for more than 150 years and, currently, has more than 1,200 branches and 100,000 employees around Africa. It has lived through and evolved with several waves and advancements in technology, yet remained relevant on the continent. One of the reasons for this is the bank’s willingness to embrace tools […]
I am interested in intelligent automation and I’ve worked in the technology space for 4+ years. It amazes me how much change has occurred in this time. From 2014, when the only apps I used on my phone daily were BBM, Email, Browser, and YouVersion until now when I literally organize and transact my entire life […]
Originally published on AfricaBusiness2020 via Skrife. Introducing… Frieda Demor Nwokolo, owner of Eastgate Hotel Ghana and a hospitality guru who has spent the past decade honing her craft, exploring her passions and making herself a force to be reckoned with in Africa’s boutique hotel industry. In this interview, she shares her experience of setting up a boutique hotel […]
Originally published on AfricaBusiness2020 via Skrife. He is referred to as an ‘accidental entrepreneur’, one with no intention of starting a business who saw a problem and set out to fix it. Introducing… Sesinam Dagadu, the founder of a Solutions Company called tinyDAVID. tinyDavid was set up to develop solutions for the developing world, and SnooCODE, their first […]
In this video, I share info on how to get equity-free seed funding for your business idea or startup. I also share a list of accelerators around the world to help you get started on your journey. https://youtu.be/1jnqvbZDgdU < p style=”text-align: left;”>List of Equity-free Accelerators Around The World Ready to take a bold step into […]
Originally published on the MEST Africa Blog, In the last couple of months, Andrew Berkowitz of The Global Startup Movement has been on a mission to understand the fast-growing and evolving technology ecosystem in Africa – Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and all other 50 African countries. He virtually stopped by our HQ Campus to have conversations with the team behind […]
Originally published on AfricaBusiness2020 via Skrife. Introducing… Kelvin Nyame, one of three Ghanaian entrepreneurs, (including Rashad Seini and Kofi Amuasi), who founded MeQasa after receiving US$90,000 seed-funding from Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in 2013. MeQasa went on to raise US$800,000 from Frontiers Digital Ventures, a global VC firm in 2015, and is rising to be the […]
