Tag: Rwanda
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E-mobility in Africa must be expedited – Alp Tilev
Co-Founder and CTO of Ampersand, Alp Tilev, says the transition to e-mobility in Africa must be expedited. He shares more on why there is an opportunity to drive the adoption of electrically powered motorcycles that produce less pollution in Africa. Talking about the financial and environmental advantages of electric motorcycles for drivers and the environment.…
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Microsoft, Liquid Cloud to support African businesses with cloud services
Microsoft is announcing a partnership with Liquid Cloud through its Africa Transformation Office (ATO) to provide cloud services to businesses across the continent. Liquid Cloud and the Microsoft ATO will collaborate to deliver resilient cloud in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to meet regulatory and data residency requirements, address low latency workloads,…
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Futurize launches university Innovation challenge in partnership with Microsoft, AstraZeneca
Futurize is launching its first annual Fuel Africa Innovation Program from March 17 to 25, 2022. In partnership with AstraZeneca, through the A.Catalyst Network, and Microsoft and co-funded by Bristol Myers Squibb and Famfa Oil. To equip young entrepreneurs with the resources to build high-potential venture ideas and contribute to sustainable development globally. Fuel Africa…
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130K users enrol in the Coding for Employment digital skills program
The African Development Bank, AfDB, is announcing the enrolment of 130,000 users in its Coding for Employment digital skills program. The digital skills training platform was launched in December 2019 in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and Microsoft. The milestone comes as it works to equip African youth with information and communication technology, entrepreneurship and…
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Rwanda Coding Academy gets grant boost to develop world-class programmers
Rwanda Coding Academy will receive one hundred and fifty thousand US Dollars in a new grant agreement between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Ministry of ICT and Innovation in Rwanda. The grant fund is sponsored by the Rockefeller Trust Fund and administered by AfDB. It will go into financing on-job training for teachers.…
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Digital Transformation will support Economic growth and drive Entrepreneurship
Microsoft 4Afrika GM joins others in the Digital Transformation conversations at Transformation Africa 2018 Microsoft 4Afrika General Manager Amrote Abdella joined other panelist at this years Transform Africa Summit 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. Joining the conversation on, Is digital connectivity an enabler and a foundation? during the Transform Africa’s Economic Forum. The broader discussion was…