Africa's Tech Future, Today.
African cryptocurrency infrastructure platform Breet is advocating for simpler digital asset payments to drive enterprise adoption. Speaking at Moonshot by TechCabal in Lagos, chief operating officer Vivian Mbene emphasized that enabling businesses to receive local currency settlements directly is critical to overcoming merchant skepticism.
Nigeria’s $7.5 million Gates Foundation-backed artificial intelligence scaling initiative is deploying capital and technical support to transform essential public sectors. By bringing together health, agriculture, and AI research ventures, the hub accelerates practical digital solutions designed around local community needs.
Moniepoint restructuring hits engineering and product teams: staff were offered five months' salary to leave, with role decisions due 2–11 November.
AltSchool Africa CEO Adewale Yusuf is stepping down and co-founder Akintunde Sultan takes over as the edtech pivots to licensed degrees and an edX-style model.
Vuyani Jarana turned his childhood curiosity with radios into a career driving rural connectivity across South Africa. As former chief executive of Vodacom Business and South African Airways, and now leading Ilitha Telecommunications, he focuses on bringing affordable broadband to townships and rural areas.
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is expanding its enterprise footprint across Africa following a decade of profitable growth. The company is targeting large-scale institutional contracts across banking, central government, and critical national infrastructure.
Engineers at Microsoft's Africa Development Centre in Nairobi were told on 12 October that their roles are going. Microsoft calls it a "proposed" change and says it will keep staff in Kenya, but has not said how many jobs are affected.
From early childhood fascination with keyboards and underlying mechanisms, a pioneer's journey evolved from experimenting on a mechanical typewriter to designing high-performance computing infrastructure. Today, those early operational insights fuel the deployment of next-generation exascale AI supercomputers across Europe.
Veteran tech leader Lungi Sangqu shares key takeaways from nearly forty years in digital transformation and enterprise leadership. He argues that true operational efficiency begins with people and clear workflows rather than software investments.
Pan-African payment infrastructure provider Kora has launched One Rail, a specialized extension that enables merchants to accept, hold, convert, and settle funds in stablecoins alongside traditional fiat. The initiative addresses persistent cross-border settlement challenges, high foreign exchange fees, and limited dollar liquidity across regional commerce.
Unreliable electricity does not only raise costs. It shapes what applications can be built, and most engineering advice written elsewhere quietly assumes it away.
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