For the last five decades, the Consumer Electronics Show has been showcasing the latest and greatest in technology and innovation. Over the last few years, CES has settled into a rhythm of starting off early in the New Year and hosting the event in Las Vegas; it has also become the most important expo…
Korean electronics giant Samsung is off to a great start in 2017 as the company reported operating profits of $9.2 trillion in the final quarter of 2016. This represents a quarterly improvement of 50 percent, which is impressive even for companies that operate in the competitive sector of consumer electronics. What makes the quarterly…
Jessica O. Matthews is more than just a business woman who was named the Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation in 2012 and cracked the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2014. She’s also the creator of that soccer ball that produces electricity. Better known as Soccket, it’s the energy-harnessing soccer ball…
Under-banked Senegal, home to 15,830,490 people, is about to become the second country to introduce a national digital currency, called the electronic Central African Franc (eCFA), which will have the same legal tender status as the CFA, Senegal’s traditional government-backed currency. In Tunisia, the first country to adopt a national digital currency, citizens discovered…
Imagine walking into a bank to open an account. You need this account to start a business. The friendly banker welcomes you with a warm smile and helps you choose the perfect account for your startup. Now he asks for your ID. Unsure about what to present them, suddenly you realize that you never…
Poaching has been an ongoing problem in Africa for years; however, modern technology has just evened the odds a bit for the fight to protect local wildlife. The World Wildlife Foundation has made incredible strides in developing a new and effective way to help curb poaching in Africa. The program was funded by a grant…
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…
