Tech In Africa - Meet the Founders Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Want to know more about entrepreneurship and startups in Africa? Every month, TechInAfrica will bring you interviews from African startup founders from all over the continent, all industries. Learn more about markets, industries, trends and the African market. This series is about startup founders in Africa. We have other series about Investors or Ecosystem shapers in Africa too.
TechInAfrica – After launching its third-party fact-checking program in five African countries—Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, and South Africa—Facebook has now expanded the program to 10 additional African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, and Ghana.
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TechInAfrica – Currently in discussion with the Ethiopian government is Eutelsat, the French satellite broadcasting service provider, in regards to the possibility of its latest satellite providing an internet service that covers the African market. Called Konnect and set to launch at the end of December, the satellite will provide broadband internet-connected all across Africa.
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Meet Cris, Co-Founder of Lekkify
Previously we have had interviewed with Collins Ceanice at Meet The Founders Episode 3, discussed about the overview of the company. Lekkify is an online e-commerce company that helps manufacturing companies globally to sell goods directly to consumers at an affordable/cheap prices. At this opportunity, we will talk with Cris, as also the Co-Founder. Currently they got nominated for the #AppsAfrica Innovation Awards and have expanded to four additional African countries.
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TechInAfrica – The software giant company, SAP is set to train about 1.5 million young Africans this year for its Africa Code Week 2019 initiative. The skills development initiative has trained about 4.1 million African youth by far and this year hopefully it will meet its target for the additional numbers of participants. This year will be the fifth edition of ACW and will be taking place during October.
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TechInAfrica – American internet entrepreneur and CEO of Twitter, Jack Patrick Dorsey is planning to visit several African countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, and Ethiopia in November this year. Dorsey said that he will be spending most of his time meeting with African entrepreneurs, including Betelhem Dessie, a young Ethiopian entrepreneur and the Founder of iCog – Anyone Can Code.
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TechInAfrica – Mara Group has launched two first made-in-Africa smartphones – Mara X and Mara Z – as part of its efforts to support Rwanda’s ambitions to become a technology hub in the region. Both of the mobile devices apply Google’s Android operating system and cost $190 and $130, respectively.
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TechInAfrica – The giant smartphone company Samsung is officially on-board with holographic embedded smartphones after its long-overdue 63-page patent proposal finally gets approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on September, 19th this year. The filing dates back to 2018.
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TechInAfrica – The country is in need of more women engineers, as reflected by ANAMBRA State deputy governor, Dr. Knkem Okeke. He advocated for the projection of more women’s participation in the engineering profession in Nigeria. He argued that engineering is a major in which women could thrive within it, especially when given an immense amount of support.
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Meet Jad Aizarani, CEO and Co-Founder of Smubu
Smubu is a music streaming platform that aims to make African music legally and easily accessible to all users in Africa. They are determined to allow artists complete right to their music by fighting online websites that publicly allow users to download artists’ songs without any consent from the artists.
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TechInAfrica – iphone 11: South African release date revealed. Appearing as the fervent successor of the iPhone X (which took the world by storm, in case you didn’t remember), Apple has announced iPhone 11 that boasts a triple camera system. Apple also claimed that the camera will add tons of capability without complexity—as well as an unprecedented leap of battery life along with ‘a mind‑blowing chip that doubles down on machine learning and pushes the boundaries of what a smartphone can do.
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Meet José Kimpalou , Co-Founder and Managing Director of WapiMED
WapiMED SARL is a Congolese start-up (DR Congo) founded in April 2016 and based in Kinshasa. The start-up was founded by two Congolese entrepreneurs: José Zefu Kimpalou and Steve Nkashama. WapiMED is an African startup developing eHealth solutions aiming to ease access to quality healthcare in the African sub-Saharan region.
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TechInAfrica – The South African lifestyle network created “by young people for young people”, TRACE Mobile announced earlier this week that it was launching the TRACE Troops initiative. Listen now for more details!
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Meet Elvis Silayo, Founder of PayChap
PayChap is a smart, innovative and cashless payment platform in Tanzania. It is built around the need of Tanzanian consumer that incorporates peer to peer transactions, merchant payment services, bill payments, recharge feature and a range of other social and lifestyle feature favouring a growing network of users and retail partners in Tanzania.
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TechInAfrica – When it comes to fintech, you might be likely to think about the USA, the UK or even Europe as the centre of the world while it’s clearly Africa. This is something well known by African tech-sector entrepreneurs such as Mzi Khumalo, Sibusiso Shabalala, and Segun Adeyemi. We will now give you three reasons why fintech, the people who embrace it and the companies that create it, are the positive driving force behind change in Africa. Listen now!
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Meet Nass Aoun, CFO and Co-Founder of Flexi Africa
Flexi Africa provides a marketplace for crafters, artists and collectors to sell their handmade creations, vintage goods, and both handmade and non-handmade crafting supplies. The company is based on Zimbabwe, and is looking to expand to more African countries.
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TechInAfrica – Kenya has been positioned as the second most innovative country in sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa while Mauritius came in third, this is as indicated by a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The report ascribed Kenya’s situation to its inventive qualities, particularly the entrance to credit, and microfinance gross advances where it positions sixth on the planet.
Kenya was likewise commended for utilizing development to improve social insurance, particularly the open private organizations that have brought enormous advantages.
The report noticed that “Kenya has a reputation for account elevated amounts of development, beating on levels of advancement in respect to GDP for the ninth back to back a year, a magnificent record at par with other lower-center salary nations like India and Viet Nam.”
Close by South Africa, Rwanda, and Mozambique, the East African innovative country was said to have performed generally well on advancement contrasted with its degree of financial improvement than some other area.
Notwithstanding, the report noticed that Kenya still needs to improve its advancement execution on inventive, innovation, business refinement, and human capital yield with the nation’s shortcoming referred to as ICT administrations imports, student educator proportion, and exchange tax rates.
Switzerland was positioned as the main development center point in 2019 for the ninth back to back year pursued by Sweden and the US separately. South Africa developed 63rd universally, with Kenya coming at position 77 and Mauritius position 82.
Rwanda was lauded for gaining colossal ground in the wake of developing 94th internationally, up to five positions from 2018.”It is the top economy in the low-salary gathering and demonstrates a solid execution in the capital arrangement, simplicity of getting credit, firms offering formal preparing, and high-innovation imports,” the report expressed.
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Meet Uche Anisiuba, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Quadron Studios
Quadron Studios is a Nigeria-based tech company that focuses on 3D animation, visual effects, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Advertising, 2D animations, films, and post-production fields of the entertainment industry.
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TechInAfrica – As part of its efforts to youth empowerment, AirtelTigo hosted young entrepreneurs from Junior Achievement (JA) Ghana, providing them with practical experience in using technology and contribute to their communities. The young entrepreneurs paid a visit to AirtelTigo’s headquarters in Accra which was part of the Start-Up Academy program organized by JA Ghana in collaboration with Aiducation International and Swiss Re Foundation. They had a chance to meet and interacted with the Business to Business (B2B), Commercial and Human Resources teams on key topics like product development, go-to-market strategies, startup-enabled technologies, and HR policies.
According to the CEO of AirtelTigo, Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi, the visit was part of the company’s commitment to collaborate with organizations like JA Ghana to build future leaders for the country using information communication technology. Patrick Donkor, one of the young entrerogapreneurs and a student of the University of Cape Coast, shared his experience on the visit to AirtelTigo’s headquarters in Accra. He said: “This visit has helped me to understand how products are conceived from an idea to when it is eventually brought up in the market.”
Donkor went on, “So, as a budding entrepreneur, when I have an idea I don’t have to just start implementing, I have to take it through a series of tests which will let me be sure whether the idea I am putting out there will meet the needs of the target audience.”
JA Ghana which organized the Start-Up Academy program is a non-profit program under the JAAfrica & Worldwide network. It is dedicated to support and empower youths to gain economic success through relevant education.
The program mainly focuses on work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy, as well as encourage youths to experience the realities of work and life in this 21st century.
Source: biztechafrica.com
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Meet Segun Olujide, the Co-founder of Cycles
Cycles is a bike share startup building smart communities and cities. Using smart, shared bicycles,we are looking to build healthy, productive and green communities.
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TechInAfrica – WhatsApp and Telegram are instant messaging apps most used in the world. They enable people around the world to text chat, video chat, and share files over their networks conveniently and easily. However, Symantec’s report on these networks reveals worrying findings.
According to the report, ‘Media file jacking’ flaw has affected the WhatsApp and Telegram instant apps for Android. In other words, files shared via these apps are at risk of being exposed and manipulated by ‘malicious actors’ if particular features are enabled.
“It stems from the lapse in time between when media files received through the apps are written to the disk, and when they are loaded in the apps’ chat user interface (UI) for users to consume. This critical time lapse presents an opportunity for malicious actors to intervene and manipulate media files without the user’s knowledge,” said Symantec explaining how it works.
This vulnerability leads hackers to misuse and exploit files such as personal photos, videos, documents, invoices, and voice memos shared on the platforms. The impact of the vulnerability is that hackers can manipulate the image, payment, audio messages, and spread fake news. Thus, this can lead to misunderstanding and chaos between people who communicate via the apps.
Symantec explains that WhatsApp and Telegram can protect the threats by validating the integrity of files, storing media in non-public directories and encrypting sensitive files. The good news is that Google is planning to change how to access files with Android Q. It will implement a more restrictive way to access files on our mobile phone and be able to mitigate threats that exploit the WhatsApp or Telegram flaw.
Source: techweez.com
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Meet Seun Ayegbusi, the founder and CEO of Coverdor
Coverdor is a fully digital insurance platform where customers can buy and manage all aspects of an insurance transaction, completely online.
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TechInAfrica – Africa’s largest economy agreed to join a broad free trade agreement aimed at stimulating manufacturing industry across the continent. Eritrea is therefore the only African country not to be part of the trading bloc. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed this historic agreement at the African Union (AU) summit in Niger few hours ago. The agreement should stimulate regional trade and allow companies to develop and enter new markets. Manufacturing currently accounts for only about 10 per cent of the African Union’s combined GDP of $3.4 trillion, and the trade agreement could make this sector more competitive and productive. Initially, Nigeria feared that by exposing its manufacturers to increased competition, the agreement would lead to the bankruptcy of some of them and increase unemployment. But after reviewing an impact assessment of the trade agreement in June, Buhari agreed to join the free trade area. With Nigeria’s accession, AfCFTA’s dream of increasing intra-African trade, which is currently lagging behind the volume of trade the continent does with Europe, is now closer. Now that AfCFTA can offer access to the huge Nigerian market, they are in a much better position to negotiate with regional bodies in other parts of the world.
But why was Eritrea excluded?Eritrea did not participate in the negotiations because of its conflict with Ethiopia, according to AU Commission Trade and Industry Commissioner Albert Muchanga. He added that now the two countries are at peace and that Eritrea has asked the AU to reach an agreement with them. They might be joining the agreement in the coming months.
**Source: BBC News
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Meet Boi Rasmussen, the CEO of MyFoodness
MyFoodness is a food ordering App for Botswana. Whatever you crave, from any restaurant on our App, just go ahead and place an order. You can choose to pick up the order yourself or have it delivered to your door-step!
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Meet Collins Ceanice, The Co-Founder of Lekkify ltd
Lekkify ltd is a global platform connecting customers with stores from across the world. The order could ship from a variety of locations depending on the store’s location.
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Meet TUYIZERE Samuel, The CEO and Founder of eJobu ltd
eJobu is an online web/mobile platform which connects Freelancers, consultants, Experts, and handymans to clients who need their professional services. They are revolutionising the informal work sector in Africa with their ease to use platform.
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Meet Barret Nash, The Co-Founder of SafeMotos
Launched in Rwanda in 2015 SafeMotos was conceived as an Uber for African motorcycle taxis that uses telematic data to measure real time driver safety. SafeMotos is a ride hailing and on demand services platform designed specifically for urban Africa’s affluent, middle and bottom of the pyramid classes. Recognised as one of Africa’s most innovative startups, SafeMotos consolidates multiple on demand services together in one smartphone application with services linked together by a common physical logistics network of motorcycle and car drivers.
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