ICANN Wiki. Africa’s Fight over who controls digital memory leaves reasons why every African Tech Founder needs to own their own history before AI does

Ebot Elvis Ako6 days ago6 days ago010 mins

There’s a question that should keep every African tech founder up at night: what happens when the record of your life’s work depends entirely on whether the institution you challenged happens to fund the platform documenting you? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the exact fight playing out right now between a prominent African internet governance…

Morocco just signed a deal with a company nobody outside IT knows, and that’s exactly the Point

Ebot Elvis Ako6 days ago6 days ago08 mins

If you’ve never heard of Vertiv, you’ve still depended on them every single day without knowing it. That’s how critical infrastructure works; it only makes headlines when it fails. Morocco’s Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, providing power and…

Cisco’s Appointment of Ossama Eldeeb as Africa MD, signals for AI-ready infrastructure, not just a staffing move

Ebot Elvis Ako6 days ago6 days ago07 mins

Every time a global tech giant makes an executive appointment in Africa, I ask myself one question: is this a real commitment, or just a press release with a LinkedIn photo attached? We know the difference but this one’s got our attention. Cisco, one the world’s largest software networking manufacturer has appointed Ossama Eldeeb as…

Inside the UN’s four-Country bet on African women’s Digital Entrepreneurship

Ebot Elvis Ako2 weeks ago2 weeks ago07 mins

Picture this: a woman living in the rural parts of the Republic of Congo builds a small business selling goods online. She’s smart, she’s driven, she’s got a product people want. But she’s stuck: no smartphone budget, no digital literacy training nearby, and a banking system that doesn’t quite know what to do with her….

Telkom admits it: South Africa’s digital divide was never just about coverage

Ebot Elvis Ako2 weeks ago2 weeks ago07 mins

There’s a question nobody at Telkom or even most Telecom providers may want to answer out loud: what’s the point of fibre to every house if nobody in that house knows what to do with it? I’ve sat in enough digital transformation rollouts to know this pattern by heart. You spend months, sometimes years, getting…

From scrap metal to sustainable power: This is how Cameroonian Engineer Atud Jonathan Asaah is bringing Clean energy to rural communities

Ebot Elvis Ako3 weeks ago3 weeks ago012 mins

In the quiet village of Bessi in Batibo Subdivision, a stream that has flowed for generations is now doing something extraordinary: it is generating electricity. Behind this remarkable achievement is Atud Jonathan Asaah, a Cameroonian renewable energy specialist whose vision has transformed a simple mountain stream into a functioning micro-hydropower plant capable of supplying electricity…

What Gigbanc’s shutdown teaches African Founders about building businesses, not just raising rounds

Ebot Elvis Ako3 weeks ago3 weeks ago016 mins

Gigbanc, a Nigerian fintech that built cross-border payment services for freelancers, creators, remote workers and businesses, is shutting down after three years as it struggled to secure fresh funding, and the startup is now in acquisition talks with an undisclosed Nigerian fintech infrastructure provider. Customers have until July 31 to convert their balances into naira…

Libya just found more oil, but here is what these new oil discoveries really say about African upstream risk

Ebot Elvis Ako4 weeks ago4 weeks ago07 mins

Libya’s National Oil Corporation just announced three fresh oil and gas finds one offshore with Italy’s Eni in Block D, one onshore in the Murzuq Basin with Spain’s Repsol, and one in the Ghadames Basin near the Wafa field with Algeria’s Sonatrach all coming out of 2008-era Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements, and all signaling…

DRC just turned the Congo river into a $1.5B Data Highway, and it’s the smartest infrastructure move nobody’s talking about

Ebot Elvis Ako1 month ago1 month ago08 mins

The DRC’s government has signed a $1.5 billion memorandum of understanding with China’s Genew Technologies to lay 1,700km of fibre-optic cable along the Congo River from Muanda to Kisangani, plus nearly 400km of terrestrial connections, totalling about 2,100km of infrastructure. Instead of fighting the DRC’s brutal terrain, the plan uses the river itself and its…

India is knocking on Africa’s door with Solar Panels and Satellite Tech. Will Africa answer with more than just cobalt?

Ebot Elvis Ako1 month ago4 weeks ago013 mins

Diplomats and policy experts gathered in New Delhi this week with a message for Africa and India: the global order is shifting, the old boys’ club at the top is getting crowded, and if these two regions don’t lock in a serious partnership around solar energy, critical minerals, space technology, and skills, someone else will…

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