Morocco recently took a significant step in its goal to extract 52% of its total energy from clean sources by the year 2030. As reported by Alister Doyel of Reuters the first phase of the Noor power plant, which lies near the Moroccan town of Ouarzazate, is complete. Altogether, the first phase of Noor…
The people behind Africa’s first private satellite are probably not who you would expect. A group of teenage girls from Cape Town have designed and built a satellite that will collect information on agriculture and food security across the continent. A team of 14 girls worked as part of a project by South Africa’s…
A group of word lovers is working together with taxi drivers to bring the art of reading back to the people of Tunisia. In an effort to leverage the long commute times, taxi drivers have embraced the idea of providing a mobile library to their patrons. E-Taxi is a application that was launched…
iMonitor is a smartphone app produced in collaboration with UNAIDS. It creates a unified dashboard for HIV/AIDS patients to locate nearby counseling and medication services, receive refills, and report inappropriate stigma from health care providers. iMonitor was first introduced in Jakarta, Bangkok, the Philippines, and India. It has provided real-time updates to government and…
Elon Musk, the new solar shingle powerhouse? Tesla founder, Elon Musk, showcased his latest technology to investors, demonstrating elegance and solar efficiency. Musk took one of the sets of the popular old tv show, “Desperate Housewives,” and transformed it into a classy, seamlessly-designed solar powerhouse. The key to his marketing is to make solar…
In a very ambitious project, Google and Facebook have joined forces with the Pacific Light Cable Network to build an internet cable connection under the Pacific Ocean. The cable, which will sport over 12,800 kilometers of fiber, will connect Los Angeles to Hong Kong, making over 80 million video chats possible at one time…
While most new graduates of the ever prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have their minds set on making it big in Silicon Valley, Obinna Ukwuani’s heart was set a little closer to home. Rather than find a comfortable six-figure salary job, he has instead invested his talents in fulfilling his dream of opening…
George Airport, in George, South Africa, has become the first airport facility in Africa to be entirely energized by solar power. In an article for The Independent, Gabriel Samuels explains how the project to run George Airport entirely off of solar power required the installment of 2,000 solar panels to produce 7050 KW daily.…
Boosting agricultural production could be the key to adding jobs and profitability for the billions of people who live below the Sahara Desert. In response to this challenge, Japan is investing more than $30-billion toward production of rice and other crops and developing technology in hopes of transforming the population into a thriving rural…
Mark Zuckerberg was set to provide millions of people with free internet access in Africa. Internet.org was poised to help those without internet service finally connect to the world. The project, aimed at working to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” offers a platform for businesses and internet providers to join…
