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Learning new computer skills in the rapidly changing information technology (IT) sector opens young women opportunities in Rural Uganda.

Philomera foundation, a youth lead Initiative based on the Island District of Kalangala on Lake Victoria in Uganda, helps end the gender technology gap by teaching women and girls IT skills.

For more, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Joseph Kayiira, Founder, Philomera Hope Foundation Center in Uganda.

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced last month that it had put plans to regulate cryptocurrencies on hold in light of Nigeria’s central bank’s decision to ban them.

In 2018, the central bank said cryptocurrencies were not legal tender and that dealers and investors were not protected by law.

For more perspective, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Rotimi Ogunyemi, ICT Attorney, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

A Rwandan innovation firm ARED is using the state-of-the-art innovative business model to provide Wi-Fi, low-cost phone charging, airtime sales, mobile money transfers, and other services. ARED has created jobs and empowers women and people with disabilities in rural and urban communities.
For more insight, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Henri Nyakarundi, CEO and Founder of ARED Group, in Kigali, Rwanda.

COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on small businesses in Nigeria. Since the beginning of the outbreak, young entrepreneurs are actively involved in developing solutions that solve big problems using new technology.

For more perspective, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent. Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Vivienne Belonwu, Media & Communications Strategist, HYBR Scaling Solutions – An innovation firm based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ghana, like many African countries, is grappling with high maternal and perinatal mortality rates. A new app, trimester save, is looking to help expectant mothers and parents of young children save money and make mobile payments using their phones.

For more insight, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Dr. Elvis Kuma Forson, CEO, and Founder, Trimester Save, in Accra, Ghana.

Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year. The free volunteer-produced internet encyclopedia is now the seventh-most popular website globally and still growing.

Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Pamela Ofori Boateng, a young Wikipedia volunteer responsible for adding and editing content from Ghana on Wikipedia

Running an e-commerce business can be a challenge in most African countries. Thanks to the pandemic, small companies, and start-ups embrace new ways of doing business as they fight for competition amid growing demand by consumers for online services.

In Uganda, Doppler Technologies and Innovations limited has created a “Jalule” platform that helps small businesses keep an online presence.

Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Donald Waruhanga, CEO, Doppler Technologies.

African entrepreneurs are creating innovations that help farmers improve their yields. In Ghana, Sesi Technologies, the company behind “GrainMate,” allows farmers and grain purchasers to affordably measure moisture levels of maize, rice, wheat, millet, sorghum, and other staples.

Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Isaac Sesi, a Ghanaian entrepreneur and CEO, Sesi Technologies.

Since 2015, The Hacklab Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Tema, Ghana, has been empowering the youth for future digital jobs through skills development, boot camps, Hackthorns, mentor ship, coaching, and internships, and More importantly, job placement across Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and India to boot.

Africa 54’s Technology reporter Paul Ndiho spoke to Foster Akugri, a Ghanaian social entrepreneur, founder, and Hacklab foundation president in Accra.

According to the UN Women campaign against gender-based violence, 13 – 45 percent of women in sub-Saharan Africa experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime. 

But TechHer, a Nigerian social enterprise, aims to change that narrative through tech and innovation – by demystifying technology and applying tech solutions towards societal problems, primarily as they affect women. 

Africa 54’s tech correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Chioma Agwuegbo, Executive Director, TechHerNG, in Abuja, Nigeria.