SAP research reveals top tech skills challenges for African organisations
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 08 March 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- SAP Africa today released a new report ‘Africa’s Tech Skills Scarcity Revealed’ which seeks to unveil the specific challenges and opportunities for African organisations seeking greater tech skills availability. Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa, says there is an urgent need to invest in skills development and […]
International Women’s Day: Addressing the Gender Gap in the Technology Sector
By Imane Charioui, Director of Francophone Africa, WorldRemit YAOUNDE, Cameroon, 8 March, 2023,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Today, innovations in the financial services sector are increasingly recognized for their acceleration of access to science, technology and innovation for all. However, growing inequalities are becoming evident in the context of digital skills and access to technologies with women being left […]
Creating an ecosystem of forward-thinking stakeholders to drive Africa’s youth ambitious agenda
By Moses Anibaba, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at the British Council JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 8 March 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-With the world’s youngest and fastest-growing populations, African countries are changing rapidly. The next generation is essential to the continent’s future and to global shared interests in creating a safer, healthier and more prosperous future […]
Advocacy Trends in Africa that are Shaping the Future
By Valerie Traore, Founder and Executive Director of Niyel DAKAR, Senegal, 8 March, 2023-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- There is a strong reclaiming of the people’s voice in advocacy and creating change, and I am encouraged about the trends that are emerging. A few weeks ago, the African Development Bank Group released a report stating that Africa is set to outperform the […]
OST Sustains its 3-year chapter in Africa with AfricaGrow
AfricaGrow trusts Open Startup and supports its next 3-year chapter in expanding into Africa – Starting with The Global Immersion Week and Brain MIT bootcamp as the first activities TUNIS, Tunisia, 7 March 2023,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Open Startup (OST)-International, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the Middle East and Africa, has […]
Ghana: Improving Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality
By Darryl Pietersen, Director, Anglophone Africa, WorldRemit ACCRA, Ghana, 7 March, 2023,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The digital revolution is fully underway, and the technology industry is reshaping our world. While it looks quite innovative and revolutionary from the outside, women remain a dramatically underrepresented group in shaping this tremendous social transformation. This year’s International Women’s Day theme set […]
President Bio breaks over three-decades-old jinx with the construction of a brand-new airport in Sierra leone
PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom, 7 March 2023,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- During his campaign stop in 2018, the then Candidate of Sierra Leone’s Peoples Party, SLPP, Dr Julius Maada Bio, now president of the country, made some very bold and ambitious promises, some even elicited mockery from the then-ruling APC. The Free and Quality Education for […]
Zimbabwe: Improving digital innovation and technology for Zimbabweans
By Darryl Pietersen, Director, Anglophone Africa, WorldRemit HARARE, Zimbabwe, 7 March, 2023,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Digital technology and innovation has created new ways to connect, share experiences, work, and build communities regardless of geographic boundaries. Technology continues to be an influential tool in enhancing growth and expanding opportunities for women’s rights across the world. While technology […]
Welcome to the Future: Bybit Partners with Mastercard to Offer Crypto Payments Debit Card
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 06 March 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, the world’s third most visited crypto exchange, is proud to announce the launch of Bybit Card, a debit card powered by the Mastercard network, issued by Moorwand. This card will allow users to off-ramp crypto into the fiat world to make purchases or take out cash from […]
Changing lives in The Gambia: A UN Resident Coordinator Blog
UN News/Hisae Kawamori – Seraphine Wakana, UN Resident Coordinator, The Gambia New York, USA, 06 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/Seraphine Wakana, the UN Resident Coordinator in The Gambia, is coming to the end of her mandate. In this blog, she reflects on her experience over the last five years, which have seen the country emerge from a […]
