CIO Africa

3 Oct 2022 - Philip Besiimire has been appointed Vodacom Tanzania Managing Director, with effect from October 15, 2022. Besiimire joins Vodacom from MTN... Source

3 Oct 2022 - First Distribution has been selected as this year’s Microsoft CSP Indirect Provider Of The Year. The prestigious award keeps in... Source

3 Oct 2022 - FinTech plays a crucial role in boosting financial inclusion of underserved segments of the population. Digital credit financing is increasingly... Source

3 Oct 2022 - Kyosk digital platform founded in Kenya by Raphael Afaedor has opened its offices in Uganda’s Kampala Capital City, allowing retailers... Source

3 Oct 2022 - Kenyan tech company focused on ICT Training and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), StepWise, announced the launch of its Software Development... Source

3 Oct 2022 - China recently released the list of countries that will form the first batch expected to carry out research for China’s... Source

30 Sep 2022 - Leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, VMware, held the vFORUM 2022 that mainly highlighted the next step for... Source

30 Sep 2022 - The application deadline for the annual digital transformation (dx)100 (formerly CIO100 Awards) has been extended to 7th October. Applicants now... Source

30 Sep 2022 - The International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) members have voted for Nairobi, Kenya to be the... Source

19 Aug 2022 - To serve the Nyanza region counties efficiently, the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has streamlined operations at the Kisumu Regional... Source

19 Aug 2022 - Active adversaries are increasingly exploiting stolen session cookies to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and gain access to corporate resources, Sophos... Source

19 Aug 2022 - United Kingdom firm Medi-science International Limited and Kenya-based startup Afya Rekod on Friday announced a strategic collaboration that seeks to... Source

19 Aug 2022 - France-based and Africa-focused startup Koolboks, has closed a $2.5M seed funding round to expand its pay-as-you-go cold storage solution for... Source

19 Aug 2022 - DownToEarth Technologies and Cisco are planning to host a workshop on SD-WAN to showcase some of the latest trends and... Source

19 Aug 2022 - A Nigerian scientist and engineer have led a team of researchers to develop electric motorbikes in Uganda. Professor Emeka Akaezuwa... Source

19 Aug 2022 - Microsoft has appointed Phyllis Migwi as the Country Manager for Kenya. She replaces Kendi Ntwiga who left for a position... Source

18 Aug 2022 - The Ministry of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and National Guidance have called for the withdrawal of the Computer Misuse Amendment... Source

18 Aug 2022 - Kenyan agritech startup, iProcure, has recently secured $10.2 million in Series B funding, which it aims to use to grow... Source

18 Aug 2022 - The cybersecurity landscape has matured. The attack vectors have evolved and adapted to changing security protocols and parameters with ransomware... Source

18 Aug 2022 - According to Kaspersky Security Network data for corporate users, the number of backdoor computer malware detected in Q2 2022 in... Source

18 Aug 2022 - Google has landed its Equiano undersea cable in Melkbosstrand, Western Cape, South Africa. The cable system, which runs more than... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Since its inception in 2019, the concept of Zero Trust has become a guiding principle for many cybersecurity practitioners. In... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Financial Times’ seventh fastest growing company in Africa, Lori Systems, has raised an undisclosed amount of Round B funding from... Source

17 Aug 2022 - The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) has appointed Joanne Mwangi-Yelbert as the new chairperson of its board for a three-year term.... Source

17 Aug 2022 - The ongoing stress of the global pandemic, war, inflation and global uncertainty has made it difficult for people to manage... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Uganda Police Force (UPF) has warned the public to be on the watch out for telephone scammers who are after... Source

17 Aug 2022 - What defines a successful businesswoman? Is it her bank balance? Her friendship circles? Her family? Or her career? The answer... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Angaza, a global leader in pay-as-you-go technology and services, today announced the appointment of Ali Hussein Kassim as its newest... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Ride-hailing company, Bolt, has switched its corporate provision to only operate in Tanzania after saying that the regulatory environment in... Source

17 Aug 2022 - Interswitch, a Nigerian integrated digital payments and commerce platform has integrated all its API products in one platform with an... Source

16 Aug 2022 - African technology infrastructure and services provider Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, on Tuesday, announced the finalisation of... Source

16 Aug 2022 - Nigeria’s thirty-six federating states achieved a 38.5 per cent Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) growth at the national level in the... Source

16 Aug 2022 - The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet), a multistakeholder think tank for ICT policy and regulation, has lauded the Independent Electoral... Source

16 Aug 2022 - Watu Credit has secured a $7 million investment from Verdant Capital to expand its operations in Uganda. Uganda is the... Source

16 Aug 2022 - Africa is the new Silicon Valley. As a result, more African tech talent is being included in the global economy.... Source

15 Aug 2022 - Makerere University Council has re-appointed Professor Barnabas Nawangwe Vice Chancellor for another five-year term. The re-appointment was confirmed by Makerere... Source

15 Aug 2022 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Dr Alex Mubiru as Director General in the Cabinet Office of the Bank... Source

15 Aug 2022 - Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new service designed to help companies deploy their own private... Source

15 Aug 2022 - Mitsumi Distribution has been signed by Seagate as the strategic distribution partner for PAN Africa. Under the accord, the distributor... Source

17 Jun 2022 - Detectives from Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Thursday nabbed a notorious gang that has been hacking people’s credit... Source

17 Jun 2022 - This could be Kenya’s time to start incorporating technology into waste management as Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has revealed its... Source

17 Jun 2022 - Taxi-hailing company Uber is reportedly set to hike its fares in Kenya as a result of the rising fuel costs... Source

17 Jun 2022 - Greytrix Africa, an enterprise resource planning (ERP), HRMS, & Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system consulting partner for Sage, has been... Source

16 Jun 2022 - Prof Tom Peter Migun Ogada has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of the Kenya National Innovation Agency... Source

16 Jun 2022 - Adobe Photoshop will soon be free to all users as a basic web-based version of the full photo editing app.... Source

16 Jun 2022 - Over the recent years, African startups have been on the rise with global investors finally looking at investment opportunities in... Source

16 Jun 2022 - The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has appointed four trustees to the Science Museum Group, one of which is... Source

16 Jun 2022 - Greenpeace has finally woken up to the fact that bitcoin is wasting vast amounts of electricity and something should be... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Kenyan fintech start-up, Patika has been accepted into the Y Combinator S22 batch. The Y Combinator is the most prestigious... Source

15 Jun 2022 - The Nigerian government has finally confirmed plans to regulate internet companies operating in the country. In a draft released on... Source