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- 27 Sept 2016
African Innovation Foundation Opens Entry to IPA Awards
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) driver of The Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) has announced the launch of the sixth edition of the IPA awards by calling for applications to the…
- 21 Jun 2024
AfriLabs, Korea-Africa Foundation in Strategic Partnership to Boost African Innovation
African hubs network AfriLabs has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea-Africa Foundation for a strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation and economic growth across the…
- 27 Jun 2022
AfDB Board Approves Establishment of African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has approved the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a new groundbreaking institution that will significantly enhance…
- 11 Oct 2013
Innovation Prize for Africa 2014 Calls for Entries, Doles Out $150,000 Prize
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) announced the call for entries for the 2014 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), presented annually since 2012 and aims at encouraging innovations that…
- 2 Jul 2017
AIF Announces 10 Nominees for Innovation Prize for Africa 2017
African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the top 10 nominees who will be contending for the 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), to be awarded in Accra, Ghana on 18th July 2017.…
- 30 Jul 2013
AIF Dangles $150,000 Prize for Innovative in Africa
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has called for entries for the 2014 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), the prestigious Prize, presented annually since 2012, to encourage innovations that…
- 1 Jun 2020
African ICT Foundation calls for partnership on Artificial Intelligence
The African ICT Foundation has called on institution, organization, startups and individuals who have expertise in the creation of intelligent drones, intelligent robots or other applications that…
- 10 Oct 2017
AIF Tables $ 185 000 for Innovation Prize for Africa 2018 Awards
By peter oluka The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the seventh edition of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) www.InnovationPrizeForAfrica.org themed “investing in inclusive…
- 8 Nov 2021
African ICT Foundation, UN- ECOSOC Ink MoU to Explore Digital Communications Benefits for Africans
The African ICT Foundation, (AfICTF) a non-governmental organization championing digital inclusion across the African continent and the Observatory for Digital Communication OCCAM, affiliated to…
- 24 Mar 2019
African ICT Foundation Unveils 2-Year Development Plan on Digital Inclusion
The African ICT Foundation, (AFICTF) has unveiled a two year digital inclusion development plan for the continent targeting policy and infrastructure issues on Internet of Things ( IoTs), Artificial…
- 23 Dec 2018
African ICT Foundation Appoints Tony Ojobo as President
The African ICT Foundation, one of the leading Information and Communications Technology group has appointed Tony Ojobo, former Director of Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission as…
- 27 Nov 2018
African ICT Foundation Rebrands, Seeks Nomination for New Board of Trustee
As part of its rebranding and re-engineering process, which began few months ago, the African ICT Foundation has begun the search for a new Board of Trustee to position the Foundation to meet its key…
- 3 Dec 2012
Africa Check Wins African News Innovation Challenge
Africa Check - a brand new fact-checking website devised by the AFP Foundation has been named one of the winners of the inaugural African News Innovation Challenge – an internationally-backed contest…
- 25 Jul 2023
African Governments Collaborate Tech Innovators to Strengthen Local Health Supply Chains - Report
Healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has launched its latest annual market intelligence report highlighting a robust pan-African ecosystem of innovators improving the safety and efficiency of…
- 3 Dec 2017
Nigeria, Others to Account for Half of 115m new Subscribers by 2020 - de Morais
Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais is an entrepreneur and innovation specialist with a deep interest in African socio-economic development. In 2007, He founded Quantum Global Group, an international group…
- 18 May 2021
Report Seeks Support to Enable African Healthtech Innovators to Accelerate Impact
Healthcare consulting firm, Salient Advisory, has launched a health care report calling on donor agencies, governments and impact investors to accelerate the impact and scale of African health-tech…
- 21 Aug 2013
Etisalat Nigeria, WAAW Foundation Reward Innovation in Schools
Etisalat has sponsored this year’s Working to Advance STEM Education for African Women (WAAW) Foundation science camp for girls, in further demonstration of its commitment to empower young people…
- 21 Jun 2021
Google Launches 3 New Programmes to Bolster African Innovation and Female Entrepreneurship
Google has renewed its commitment to growing Africa’s startup ecosystem with the announcement of a new Google for Startups Accelerator (GFSA) Africa class, the launch and opening of applications for…
- 4 Dec 2024
A Policy Blueprint for a New Era of African Innovation
By Doron Avni, VP, Public Policy & Government Affairs, Emerging Markets, Google The dawn of the AI age presents a unique opportunity for Africa. With the right policies, the continent can…
- 29 Jul 2019
Ex-NITDA Director Kemabonta Joins African ICT Foundation Executive Council
Dr. Inyi kemabonta, former director of Standards and Regulation in Nigeria Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and a World Bank Consultant on Nigeria’s Digital Economy, has joined…
- 29 Jul 2021
Zwart Talent Foundation to Empower Young Africans with Relevant ICT Skills to Enable them Compete in the Global IT Marketplace
Zwart Talent Foundation, a nonprofit organisation that bridges the growing tech talent gap, has launched to train young Africans in relevant Information Technology skills to enable them to…
- 16 Mar 2022
Tony Elumelu Foundation, Google.Org Announce Inaugural Fellowship Program to Support African Entrepreneurs
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Google announced today an inaugural Google.org Fellowship to provide one million additional Africans with access to TEFConnect, as part of the Foundation's…
- 25 Sept 2025
MTN Media Innovation Programme Fellows Chart the Future of African Media in South Africa
MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) Fellows, Cohort 4 have just concluded a week-long study trip to South Africa, exploring how media, diplomacy, and innovation intersect in shaping Africa’s…
- 14 Feb 2019
Programos Foundation Opens Submission for Digital Innovators
Mr Amos Emmanuel, Amos Emmanuel, Chief Software Architect, Programos Software Group, has announced the flagging off of the preliminary WSA National Innovation product submission from the 6…
- 17 Jan 2024
AfDB Partners HealthTech Hub Africa on Boosting Health Tech Innovations
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has entered into an agreement with the HealthTech Hub Africa to support the development of a pan-African blueprint to fasttrack health tech innovations…
- 9 Sept 2020
Djembe Consultants, AfriLabs Partner to Produce Insights Report on Building a Resilient Innovative Africa in a COVID-19 World
Djembe Consultants, the award-winning African-focused communications consultancy, has partnered with AfriLabs, the largest pan-Africa network of 225 technology and innovation centres across 47…
- 22 Jun 2022
African Health Tech Start-ups Prompting Launch of $7M Innovator Support Program
Healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has launched its latest market intelligence report highlighting promising African healthtech start-ups in supply chain. Spurred by these findings, a…
- 6 Jun 2018
AfDB, Microsoft, Others Launch Coding for Employment Program
The African Development Bank, together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali,…
- 12 Jul 2015
Elumelu Foundation Holds Bootcamo for 1,000 African Entrepreneurs
As part of Tony Elumelu’s $100 million commitment to empowering African entrepreneurs, 1,000 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs, representing 51 African countries from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship…
- 1 Oct 2024
ALX Africa Leads Tech Innovation with New Batch of Pioneer African Data Scientists
ALX, Africa’s leading tech career accelerator, a few weeks ago announced the successful graduation of over 2,800 learners across Africa. The countries include Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia,…