Safaricom has announced that it is in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Eneza Education to implement a digital mentorship programme for high ..
Telkom and Loon LLC are proud to announce the availability of mobile Internet service via the Loon technology to Kenyans, starting July 2020. This important milestone comes as the project partners approach ..
Huawei hosted the Grand Opening of its largest Huawei flagship store on Shanghai East Nanjing Road. The Store is Located in the Nanjing Building in the city’s thriving commercial hub, with a business ..
Huawei Deputy Chairman Ken Hu outlined its vision and action plan for education under its digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL at the Global Education Webinar entitled “Driving Equity and Quality ..
Dimension Data is in the process of consolidating its businesses across East Africa to enhance efficiency, deliver better client experiences and provide for the changing technology needs of its clients. ..
Microsoft has announced the launch of the Game of Learners (GOL) programme in the form of a hackathon aimed to spur innovation among university students across Kenya. The Microsoft Hackathon, developed ..
The lack of compelling online content has been identified as one of the major reasons why millions of people are still digitally excluded especially in Sub – Saharan Africa. On an online Mobile ..
More than 190 countries have closed schools forcing over 1.57 billion students out of their classrooms. UNICEF and Microsoft Corporation has today announced the expansion of a global learning platform ..
Fears of shortages of medical supplies and equipment continue to grip the Kenyan government and its citizens as COVID-19 pandemic slowly expands in the country. Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe ..
President Kenyatta has announced that the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and Google Loon have signed an agreement to allow Loon’s balloons to fly over Kenya’s airspace to enhance 4G data health coverage. ..
The World Health Organization has struck a partnership with WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging platform to bring COVID-19 facts to the billions of people on the app. WHO yesterday launched the messaging ..
One-in-ten Kenyans would rather consult a pharmacist than go to a hospital, and almost a third buy medication over the counter without a prescription: yet that opens the door to far more than incorrect ..
Kenya’s tax system is based on tax declaration, more often taxpayers do not disclose either by design or omission of their income sources forcing stringent follow-ups by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). ..
A Nairobi High Court has allowed Kenya Revenue Authority to collect Withholding Taxes from shipping lines on container demurrage charges. The Withholding Tax from different shipping lines amounts to over ..
The Coronavirus is slowly transitioning from being an epidemic to a pandemic as the COVID-19 continues to spread outside China and Asia at large. Europe and the United States of America have already recorded ..
The Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) will provide support to 200,000 women across all 47 counties in 2020. The enterprise fund program through about 300 of its support personnel will provide entrepreneurship ..
National Transport Safety Authority (NTSA) registers around 7000 vehicles monthly and 90,000 every year in Nairobi. This is owing to the growing middle class and the easy accessibility of credit from financial ..
Larry Tesler is the man you owe a lot even in his death, without his invention, I’m not sure where the world of computing would be now, probably people would have mastered the art of memorizing and typing ..
There is a need for the healthcare sector in Africa to quickly catch up with the rest of the world in terms of data capture and data management. To inspire techies to device solutions for the healthcare ..
One of the most beloved sources of power is solar panels. Here in Kenya it has been pushed as the biggest technology that will take care of the last mile power connection in rural homes. Through programmes ..
The design behind MPESA Foundation Academy is such that learners at the institution are not only taught the core curriculum where they must be fully familiar with the syllabus, but they are also taught ..
Microsoft, through its 4Afrika Initiative, has pledged support to the One Million Farmers Platform, a World Bank initiative aiming to improve the productivity, profitability and resilience of one million ..
The ICT fraternity has today thrown their support behind the recently signed into law data protection bill terming it a good regulation policy framework for the industry. Signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta ..
Michael Munyiri, Flavian Onyango, June Cheptoo Koech, and Michael Ndungu are the names that are already celebrating the release of the 2019 KCPE Results. This year’s results beat yet another record ..
Data storage has gone a few generation of changed – from traditional celluloid tapes to magnetic HDD to CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray to now Flash Memory – even modern day hard disk opt to use flash memory ..
More than 60 percent of the companies that entered into the most coveted IT excellence CIO100 Awards in East Africa have been shortlisted with Kenya being ahead of the pack. 150 out of 384 companies were ..
6 Ways digital tech will change old assumptions about doing business is written by Matthew Kibby, Vice President, Enterprise, Africa & Middle East at Sage As many of the speakers noted in their talks ..
The semi-finalist judging panel for this year’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) have been announced. The ANPI is a prize competition for African entrepreneurs spearheaded by the Jack Ma Foundation. ..
Students Lyad Taher and Tanvi Hirani have been crowned Young Scientists of the Year for showcasing the best innovation at the 2019 Young Scientist Kenya (YSK) National Science & Technology Exhibition. ..
Organisations in the region are realising the promise of digital transformation by leveraging technologies and solutions to effect transformational change