30 results
- 3 Jun 2025
Google's Open Buildings Data Empowers Africa's Health and Climate Progress
Fresh, on-the-ground evidence from health planners and climate analysts in Rwanda, Nigeria and South Africa shows how the Open Buildings dataset, which maps more than 1.8 billion structures, is…
- 2 Feb 2026
Google, African Partners Launch WAXAL to Empower 100m Africans in AI Era
Google has partnered with top African research institutions to unveil WAXAL, a massive open-access speech dataset aimed at giving over 100 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa a stronger voice in…
- 29 Sept 2025
MTN Group Backs Nigeria’s Push for African Language AI Research
MTN Group has taken up a call to action from Nigeria to support the collection of datasets of African languages. These are required to develop the continent’s own large language models (LLM) to power…
- 18 Dec 2020
Sophos Unveils 4 New Open Artificial Intelligence Developments
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has announced four new open Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments to help broaden and sharpen the industry’s defenses against…
- 30 May 2023
6 ways Google is working with AI in Africa
Lounging on Labadi Beach, browsing the shops on Osu’s Oxford Street, ending the day with a meal in a local chop bar: This is Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital city. It’s also where, in 2018, we opened…
- 22 May 2026
Microsoft, Partners Launch ‘LINGUA Initiative' to Save African Languages From Digital Extinction
Microsoft.com has launched the LINGUA Africa Open Call, a new initiative aimed at strengthening the development of inclusive artificial intelligence solutions for African languages and underserved…
- 23 Sept 2024
Using AI to Map Africa and Beyond
Did you know that by 2050, the world’s urban population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion, with nearly 90% of that growth happening in cities across Africa and Asia? To keep up with this rapid…
- 1 Mar 2016
Pentaho Supports HDS On New Hyper-Converged Platform for Big Data
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. unveiled its next generation Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP), offering native integration with the Pentaho…
- 14 Jan 2016
ITU Members Approve First ITU Standard on Big Data
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data. ITU is is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for issues that…
- 10 Mar 2015
Edo Organises 1st W/Africa Government Open Data Scheme Hackathon
Edo ICT Agency collaborated with the state’s ministry of Agriculture, SabiHub, the only technology hub in Edo state and Open Knowledge Foundation to organise the first Heckathon…
- 21 Dec 2015
ITU Members Agree International Standard for Big Data, Cloud Computing
ITU members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data. The international standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well a high-level ‘system…
- 2 Jul 2019
54gene Closes $4.5M Seed Round
54gene, the African-focused healthtech genomics and AI start-up that is leading in the diagnosis and medical treatment of people in Africa, has raised a $4.5M seed round with participation from Y…
- 8 Jul 2025
BRICS Leaders Seek Inclusive Access to AI
To support a constructive debate towards a balanced artificial intelligence (AI) approach, the BRICS leaders have agreed on a set of guidelines to foster responsible development, deployment and use…
- 20 Jun 2025
NITDA Ignites a Revolution for Gender Inclusion in Nigeria's AI and Digital Economy
In a powerful stride towards an inclusive digital future, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is spearheading a transformative drive to empower Nigerian women in the…
- 2 Sept 2025
Minister Urges Africa Leaders to Unite on AI Infrastructure
Dr. Bosun Tijani, the minister of communications, innovation and digital economy, has urged African leaders to unite in building shared AI infrastructure or risk marginalisation in the global…
- 17 Nov 2023
How Business and Government Can Put Trust at the Centre of Our AI Future
Zuko Mdwaba, Salesforce Area VP / Africa Executive Generative AI is revolutionising the way we live and work. Across industries, leaders and users alike are experimenting and tapping into the power…
- 19 Nov 2016
Facebook Launches FbStart App Resource in Africa
More than 150 developers and entrepreneurs gathered for Facebook's first FbStart event in Africa. FbStart is a global programme designed to help mobile start-ups build and grow their apps. The…
- 4 May 2023
Zoho Integrates ChatGPT with Zia to Strengthen Generative AI Capabilities
Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, on Thursday announced execution plans and ongoing investment in AI, beginning with the launch of 13 generative AI Zoho application extensions…
- 9 May 2023
Google Introduces New Tool to Enhance Quick Access to Maternal Care in Nigeria
Google on Tuesday announced a new tool to help in assessing geographic access to emergency obstetric (EmOC) care. This is a broader effort to help decision makers, governments and public health…
- 6 Sept 2016
ITU Partners IBM Watson’s XPRIZE to Promote AI Innovation
Data volumes are soaring to previously unimaginable heights. More data has been created in the past two years than in the entire history of humanity. 2.5 quintillion (that is, one-billion billion)…
- 2 Jun 2016
Experts Measure Africa’s OOH Reach with Satellite Imagery, Mobile Survey Data
GeoPoll, Kantar Media, and Cuende have announce the launch of “Pan-African OOH”, the first data product to regularly measure consumption of Out of Home mediums across Africa. The joint product uses a…
- 19 Jun 2020
NIPOST Inks MOU with NASRDA on Postcode
Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Space Research & Development Agency (NASRDA) to help it provide a framework to maximise skills,…
- 13 Mar 2016
Nigerians Develop Location Base App, BarFinderNaija
A team of Nigerian information technology experts have developed a location based App with local content for the recreation services known as BarFinderNaija. BarFinderNaija is an app where…
- 25 Aug 2020
MTN, Unacast Partner to Mitigate Spread of COVID-19 through Turbine Location Processing Engine
MTN Nigeria, Unacast have partnered to use privacy-friendly, aggregated and anonymized, human mobility insights derived from MTN’s network data, to make available a version of Unacast’s recognized…
- 6 Mar 2022
Report Says over 100m Nigerians Don’t Have Recognised ID
Over 100 million Nigerians lack access to any form of recognised identy Card (ID), and about 500 million Africans do not have any form of recognisable legal identity, according to a report by…
- 18 Feb 2017
Worldwide BI, Analytics Market to Reach $18.3Bn in 2017- Gartner
Global revenue in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics software market is forecast to reach $18.3 billion in 2017, an increase of 7.3 percent from 2016, according to the latest forecast from…
- 7 Mar 2017
Philips, LabPON Creating World’s Largest Pathology Database
Royal Philips and LabPON, the first clinical laboratory to transition to 100% histopathology digital diagnosis, announced its plans to create a digital database of massive aggregated sets of…
- 3 Oct 2014
Gartner Quashes 5 Biggest Data Myths
With so much hype about big data, it's hard for IT leaders to know how to exploit its potential, even as Gartner, Inc. dispels five myths to help IT leaders evolve their information infrastructure…
- 30 Jun 2025
Intron Africa-centric Voice AI Accelerates Delivery of Justice, Patient Care, with New Sahara Models
Intron, a cutting-edge Africa-centric voice technology platform, is accelerating the delivery of justice, patient care, and customer experiences across Africa through Sahara, a suite of best-in-class…
- 30 Jan 2014
FG Kicks Off Open Data Initiative
Ministry of Communication Technology has kicked off the Open Data Development Initiative to support federal government’s objective of driving innovation, investment and economic growth by enabling…