While tech companies are embracing technical talents from the African continent or considering the global majority countries as a space where they could hire talents, it hasn’t become so mainstream.
Rwanda’s ruling class needs to foster freedom of thought even if it comes at the cost of the citizenry becoming critical of how affairs of the State are run.
Suppple Plc, a London-Cape Town-based information technology and artificial intelligence company unveiled an app designed to assist regulators and consumers in identifying fake goods, including medicines.
The prevalence of obesity among children is becoming a great concern to many parents in Kenya. Nationally, 5 percent of Kenyan children aged 0-59 months are overweight.
Internet shutdowns have remained widespread despite the proliferation of a wide range technologies, including sophisticated ones, used by Governments for censorship, propaganda and surveillance.
To take on internet platforms calls for collective bargaining from not just media companies but regulators or regional countries in order to leverage their strengths.
AU currently heavily relies on donor funding at 91 per cent. Member States contribute only 9 per cent of the budget needed to carry out its activities. This has a bearing on its independence.
Research in oral health could significantly contribute to improved outcomes by identifying region-specific challenges, developing cost-effective interventions, and enhancing treatment methods tailored to the region’s resources and needs.
Current cleanup technologies are ‘clean-washing traps’ which Govts in Africa, a continent disproportionately affected by the global waste menace caused largely by industrialized nations, should not fall for.
Africa has made remarkable strides in various sectors, but the constant threat of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics threatens to derail these achievements.
Despite Governments in Africa making strides when it comes to strengthening surveillance, laboratory systems and logistics, there has been minimal focus on risk communication.
Governments in Africa need to expedite the ratification of the Addis Ababa Convention and move ahead to enforce it as a matter of urgency if the continent is to catch up with the rest of the world, address parity in education quality, and tackle the rampant brain drain.
