Binance Charity, the philanthropic arm of Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructure provider, and Utiva, a technology education company in Africa that helps young people learn tech skills, today announced that they have selected the 1,000 Africans who will be taking part in a free 1-year intensive skill
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The development and acceptance of digital currencies in Africa have been truly monumental. Although in 2022, the digital asset industry saw several high-profile breaches of trust and was largely characterized by volatility, the adoption of cryptocurrencies within the continent continued to grow. There has also been a shift in reliance
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MTN Uganda Chief Executive Officer, Sylvia Mulinge MTN has been ranked as having the best network in Uganda for both data and voice in 2022 following an independent network test from a global firm, Rohde & Schwarz. Rohde & Schwarz, an internationally recognised electronics group specializing in the fields of
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Dr. Omife I. Omife, Continental Advisory Director at Alliance Against Monopoly The Alliance Against Monopoly (AAM), a Pan-African anti-monopoly group has called upon regulators and lawmakers to nip in the bud, the “ugly monster of monopolies and duopolies that are slowly but surely choking the country’s ICT sector, stifling innovation and reversing the
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Twenty-five youth-led agriculture sector companies from 14 African countries have advanced to the finalist round of the African Development Bank Group’s 2022 AgriPitch Competition. The Bank, in collaboration with the implementing lead Private Equity Support and partner organizations Eldohub and the Private Finance Advisory Network, announced the 25 finalists for
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Michael Francis Kalyango and his co-developer emerged third with their M-pay app in the MTN MoMo Hackathon. M-Pay is a web application service that will enable MTN Uganda subscribers to make bulk payments to different clients with a single click of a button. The app emerged as the third in
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Maria Luzinda (2nd R), a second-year student at Makerere University pursuing Computer Science and her co-developers pose for a photo moment upon emerging second in the 2022 MTN MoMo Hackathon in Kampala. MpaMpe is a digital hybrid crowd-funding application that seeks to bridge the gap between the needy or campaigners
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Ronald Akuayo (R), a third-year student of Information Technology and Computing at Kyambogo University, and Ivan Kisa, a second-year student at the Nakawa-based Makerere University Business School (MUBS) emerged winners of the 2022 MTN MoMo Hackathon. E-wage payment system is a web-based application that facilitates single payment of casual workers
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Team Uganda display the Ugandan flags at Dakar arena in Senegal on Sunday A robotics team of teenagers from Young Engineers Uganda, has secured a spot at the Vex Robotics World Championship 2023 in the USA to represent the Pearl of Africa. Young Engineers Uganda is a STEM Education programme of the African
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Infobip Regional Head for East Africa Marko Reis Research from global cloud communications platform Infobip shows the global popularity of Short Message Service (SMS) within customer communications, 30 years after a software programmer sent the first message on 3 December 1992 remains immensely popular despite the rise of new communication channels, with a
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