In January 2012, Uganda’s Ministry of Health issued a moratorium halting new eHealth projects. Donors and NGOs had piloted up to 80 different mHealth applications in Uganda in 2008, and none of them scaled. Donors paid for the pilots. Nobody paid for national rollout.
Author: Ewang Johnson
The expansion of data centres, and the energy they consume, is at the heart of the discussion. “These data centres consume large amounts of electricity and use significant quantities of fresh water,” explains Alok Mishra, professor at NTNU.
Four Sierra Leonean startups have represented the country at the second ECOWAS Startup Awards in Abuja, Nigeria, joining 60 startups selected from approximately 10,600 applications submitted across Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states.
African startups raised $2.16 billion between January and September 2026, excluding exits. That’s 4% below the $2.24 billion raised in the same period of 2025. The headline number hides a bigger shift; the mix of money changed.
A seminar in Johannesburg brought together experts to discuss nuclear power, education, water solutions and advanced technologies
On September 18, 2026, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India made public a discussion paper titled “Enabling Cross-Border Data Interoperability for AI Systems”. It was prepared by two of the office’s own policy staff, Animesh Jain and Kunal Thakur.
07-10-2026 By Michelle Waweru | Channel: startups | Tags: Africa Startups Venture Capital & Private Equity
Are investors overlooking obvious technology investments right in front of their faces? Stocks like Nvidia and Palantir Technologies have soared in recent years, lifting the S&P 500index higher. However, some strong technology companies’ stocks have been relative laggards during that time.
The countries have achieved strong results in the fields of science, technology, education and innovation infrastructure
Few people in China have heard of Transsion Holdings, but hundreds of millions of people across the Global South use its phones.
