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| The Red Cross Society of Côte d'Ivoire has launched a new app to “digitise and optimise” its services to humanity… read |
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| ‘Afrikanist in Motion': The African public transport story, through the lens of Yasser Booley… read |
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| Gabriella Mulligan Mozambican e-commerce startup Izyshop is looking to raise US$300,000 funding, to enable it to expand its product variety and service quality... read |
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| Microsoft has launched East Africa's first #Insiders4Good fellowship programme affording entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their solutions for social challenges in communities… read |
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| Italist.com CEO, Diego Abba, was one of the opening keynote speakers at the Seamless Africa conference (future of payments, e-commerce & retail) in Cape Town... read |
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| Nicola Tyler During a recent trip to Innsbruck to work with SOS, I learned a lot about the parallel workings of the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds... read |
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| Lauren Hartzenberg Millennials are known to be tech-savvy, socially engaged, have zero tolerance for delays and are always on the go... read |
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| Issued by World Wide Creative One of South Africa's most established digital agencies, WWC, has appointed Louis Janse van Rensburg as its Managing Director for Johannesburg and Africa... read |
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| New UK research indicates that consumers value human interaction in the customer services process, with 87% reporting they tend to stay more loyal and increase their business with companies that offer a real person to talk to at the right stage of their customer journey... read |
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| After a long wait and a court case, the African Union has launched the .africa domain for the continent… read |
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| Broadbrand, a specialist mobile marketing company and subsidiary of the Digital Solutions Group (DSG), has secured the exclusive rights to offer InMobi ad inventory in Africa… read |
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| Uganda, a country with a high smartphone penetration, is the first-to-market for SureBüddy, a sponsored insurance app… read |
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| Tigo Tanzania awards $40,000 to support projects run by local social entrepreneurs in annual Change-Makers' competition… read |
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| Mastercard partners with Mobile Money Africa to host the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo in Nigeria… read |
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| Danette Breitenbach While 80% of people will not buy from a company with a damaged reputation, the good reputation of a company brings with it benefits such as allowing it to charge a premium for its products... read |
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| Ryan Kh Setting realistic growth projections is one of the most important and challenging aspects of running a business. One of the issues is that future growth rates will be profoundly impacted by your marketing plan. Unfortunately, too many businesses fail to make realistic projections... read |
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| Stephen du Preez Kenya, East Africa's industrial nerve centre is on the cusp of real growth and innovation. East Africa was again the continent's fastest growing region and is expected to continue its high growth path in 2016/2017... read |
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| Tom Jackson African tech startups are increasingly expanding outside of the continent, with firms like Entersekt, IoT.nxt and Custos Media Technologies, leading that charge right now… read |
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| The digital video community's new show ‘Street's Point of View' proves a hit with Egyptian audiences hungry for relevant local content… read |
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| Record participation of more than one hundred exhibitors from 19 countries at Agrofood & Plastprintpack Nigeria 2017… read |
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| Five African cities remain in the top 100 rankings in regards to quality of living - Mercer's 19th Quality of Living ranking… read |
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| Gabriella Mulligan Silvertree has taken full ownership of Nigerian discount online shopping platform DealDey after Ringier exit… read |
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| Leigh Andrews Loeries CEO Andrew Human chats about the Loeries' recent Regional Roadshow that covered Lagos and Nairobi while also sharing tips to boost your personal creativity... read | |
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| A mobile solution gives millennials in East Africa access to banking services, transfers and payments… read |
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| Johnson & Johnson has named the winners of its first Africa Innovation Challenge at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress… read |
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| Mark De Groot If implemented correctly, emerging technologies like virtual reality could provide the on-going customer engagement telecoms companies crave... read |
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| James Maposa I have often heard people describe products and services coming out of our continent as African, such as African attire, African cuisine, African print and so on... read |
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| Africa has more people under 18 than any other continent in the world, reports Africa Renewal… read |
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| Engen's partnership with Corner Bakery provides Zambians with fast food chicken on the go… read |
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| Marco Pozzoni Digital transformation is reshaping the way business is done across all industries… read |
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| Officials from the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe and Transmedia last week ransacked Kwekwe Community Radio station's offices… read |
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| Peter Alkema In an era of rapidly emerging new technologies customers' preferences are deeply interlocked with the use of new digital innovations... read |
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| Ilse van den Berg In his keynote address at the Dell EMC Forum on Thursday, 9 March 2017, Nigel Moulton focussed on transforming for the future... read |
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| Alex Whiting More developing countries urgently need insurance to cushion their farmers against weather extremes that can worsen poverty, but it is no magic bullet to ward off the escalating impacts of climate change, experts say... read |
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| The Multimodal West Africa 2017 (MMWA) exhibition and conference will take place from 14-16 March 2017 at the Landmark Event Centre on Victoria Island, Lagos... read |
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| A grant for a feasibility study for two 17MW solar photovoltaic plants near the villages of Pá and Kodéni in Burkina Faso... read |
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| Cari Coetzee "Instead of starting with a concept and hoping guests like it, we start with the emotions we want guests to experience, then create the concepts necessary to bring them to life." read | |
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| Founded by Morteza Saifi and Evgeniya Khromina, Panâh is an ethical fashion production house based in Nairobi, Kenya... read |
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| South African consumers look beyond price when actively seeking value for money while grocery shopping, with their perceptions of physical characteristics... read |
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| ‘Check your privilege' when coding, or your systems could have negative impacts on billions of people, warned Terri Burns, associate product manager at Twitter... read |
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| Werner Lindemann The world of media is changing at a rapid pace as consumers' attention is fragmented across multiple channels and devices... read |
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| Tim Leibbrandt For Fort CEO Shukri Toefy, the launch of the #CreateMovement platform is intended to incite greater soul-searching within the African creative economy... read |
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| Issued by Pixel Ink Now that we have settled into the new year, it's an appropriate time to look to the future. As such, businesses would do well to consider innovation in their marketing plans... read |
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| Nicci Botha The continent's mobile banking revolution is only just beginning, and although payment systems are becoming more seamless, cash is still king in Africa... read |
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| Stephen du Preez Kenya is on the cusp of real growth and innovation. In fact, according to the African Economic Outlook in 2015, East Africa was again the continent's fastest-growing region... read |
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Handling the mediaInstitute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) - 25 Oct 2017 to 27 Oct 2017, Johannesburg |
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Adam Driver "How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?" Debbie Harry "Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it." Frida Kahlo "I am my own muse, the subject I know best." |
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