Artificial Intelligence is beginning to have a profound impact on the documentation and analysis of indigenous languages, with Google Translate taking on a diversity of African languages and dialects.
Growing demand for drones in Africa - historically met through imports from global suppliers like China, Israel, and Turkey - is driving a transformative shift to local manufacturing, promising economic benefits and technological advancement.
Startups in Francophone Africa are recording more deal value and volume as rising investor participation diversifies to include even overseas football players.
1 in every 3 dollars invested into startups in Africa went into climate tech
Despite a squeeze in funding across Africa’s VC spectrum in 2023, climate tech startups were a striking exception, hauling in US$1 billion of the total US$3.5 billion raised as investor interest surged.
2023 was an inflection point in the evolution of artificial intelligence and its role in society. We’ve assembled a panel of AI scholars to look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, and to give their hopes and recommendations.
The removal of legal challenges leaves the continent's most valuable fintech startup free to pursue growth in East Africa's top digital money market - - and take on regional giant, M-Pesa.
The political content in our personal feeds not only represents the world and politics to us. It creates new, sometimes “alternative”, realities. It changes how we encounter and understand politics and even how we understand reality itself.
The advent of ChatGPT and similar chatbots provides another opportunity for the sector to reflect on why and how it assesses – and what higher education is for.
