Tech Innovation
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How Can Digital Education Contribute to Intellectual Development in Africa?
Aug 22, 2015By Raymond Erick Zvavanyange In continuation to an earlier article on technology to which I was a contributor, we recognised the fact that both the millennials and baby boomers across time and space are fully engrossed... -
Nigeria Needs More E-Commerce Websites
Aug 11, 2015Following concerns from various quarters about the perceived saturated nature of the e-commerce sector of the Nigeria economy and in view of the ongoing profit boom in the sector, the Managing Director of Supermart.ng, Raphael Afaedor... -
Zimbabwe To Host UNESCO Africa Engineering Week
Aug 11, 2015By Wallace Mawire The Engineering Council of Zimbabwe (ECZ) has won the bid to host the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Engineering week and World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) General Assembly to... -
How Being Tech Savvy Is Altering Our Culture In Nigeria
Aug 10, 2015Last month, I urgently needed a book from Laterna, a bookstore in Lagos. In the past, I would have gone to their website and placed an order. But that would have meant them calling me to... -
POTUS IN KENYA; #OBAMAINKENYA, WHAT TO SPEAK ABOUT IT
Jul 27, 2015The fever is over, POTUS came and left, a number of things stood out and various manifestations were seen. I will not attempt to summarize the proceedings but point out a few highlights. As a young... -
Leveraging Communication Technology To Boost Healthcare In Rural Africa
Jul 13, 2015By Charles Mensah I came across an article by Ruth Aine on innovative healthcare platforms like the TMCG in Uganda that one can take advantage of irrespective of the person’s location. With the use of the... -
IN NIGERIA, CITIZENS USE TRACKA TO MONITOR PROJECTS
Jul 3, 2015Nigerians now breathe a sigh of relief as the end to era of project abandonment and syphoning of funds meant for rural and developmental projects are over. This is coming in line with the berth of... -
How Can We Raise Smart Grown-ups With Technology?
Jul 2, 2015By Raymond E. Zvavanyange (@zvavanyanger3) & Sandra Zvavanyange-Muranganwa “Whilst we might be tempted to judge that the call for smart grown-ups is only suited to urban settings, we find that it is even relevant in... -
What Should You Do on World Vitiligo Day?
Jun 25, 2015World Vitiligo Day is an annual event specially dedicated to people with Vitiligo on June 25th. The global event is to create awareness about the skin condition. Vitiligo is a continual skin problem that produces white... -
How Smartphones Galvanized Nigeria’s Younger Voters
May 28, 2015Of the more than 175 million people who live in Nigeria, 70 percent of them are young. And among those millions are more than 125 million mobile phone subscribers, the largest such market in Africa. So,...