Category: Technology

–Apps Africa The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has today launched the request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for two new telecoms licenses in Ethiopia. This is a major development in the liberalisation of Ethiopia’s telecommunications market and follows a recent directive to open up mobile-money…

–Apps Africa Mobile operator Vodacom Group has switched on Africa’s first live 5G mobile network in three cities in South Africa, with further rollouts planned in other parts of the country. Vodacom was recently assigned temporary additional spectrum by South Africa’s telecoms regulator for the…

–Oluwanifemi Kolawole On Thursday, WhatsApp rolled out its latest beta version which includes a feature that allows users to add contacts by scanning QR codes and it is available on both Android and iOS in beta update. The feature can be found in the app’s…

–Bengt Halvorson | Greencar Reports In a sea of electric-car startups, Sono Motors has no problem standing out. The Munich-based company aims to build an unpainted plastic-paneled, solar-cell-covered urban hatchback primarily for Europe. It’s been largely crowdfunded—most recently, with a successful $58 million round. And…

–Stephen Edelstein | Greencar Reports In a lung-related pandemic, maybe we should be thinking a little more about how many of our existing emergency vehicles—ambulances specifically—have tailpipes and big diesel engines. Working with the Tokyo Fire Department, Nissan converted an ambulance to be fully electric….

–Tom Collins | African Business Kenya’s pastoralists often receive less for animals sold at local markets than they are worth, but new digitisation processes could help them to achieve a fairer price. In a roadside bar in Nairobi, the smell of roasted meat wafts into…

Naval Research Laboratory Summary: Researchers have developed a new resonant tunneling diode (RTD) with performance beyond the anticipated speed of 5G. Share: Full Story David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developed a new…

–Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Summary A landmark review of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future of global health calls on the global health community to establish guidelines for development and deployment of new technologies and to develop a human-centered…