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The Covid-19 boosts e-business

If the crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic crippled numerous business lines, a few, on the contrary, have been boosted by the epidemic, especially e-business.
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Is a digitalized Africa a driver of women’s inclusion?

On the 2nd of October, Digital Africa organized a round table on the theme: Women, Tech & Inclusion, perspectives from Europe and Africa. Attended by five high-level panelists, the debate focused on gender and digital issues, exploring ways to foster women’s inclusion into the real economy thanks to digital tools.
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Joseph MUCHERU – Cédric O “Digital, an opportunity to create bridges”

Invited by the French president Emmanuel Macron, Uhuru KENYATTA, his Kenyan counterpart, joined the 6th edition of Bpifrance Inno Génération, happening in Paris. On this occasion, the French secretary in charge of digital Cédric O and the Kenyan TIC minister Joseph MUCHERU shared a cross interview. They explain their expectations...
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Africa Next, to reinvent African investment and innovation
Published date : 19 Nov 2020
Author : Digital Africa

Africa Next, the new community of financial and accelerators stakeholders for developing the African startup ecosystem, organized on the 3rd of November its second e-pitch session. It is a way to reinvigorate exchanges between investors and entrepreneurs that became complicated with the Covid-19 health and economic crisis.

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Ethiopia - An application to support women entrepreneurs
Published date : 12 Nov 2020
Author : Digital Africa

In Ethiopia, an app is helping women entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 crisis. The application uses data from selling points to generate information and help those companies improve their operations, maximize their profits, and ease credit access.

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The Covid-19 boosts e-business
Published date : 27 Oct 2020
Author : Digital Africa

If the crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic crippled numerous business lines, a few, on the contrary, have been boosted by the epidemic, especially e-business.

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Resilience of African startups - By Khaled BEN JILANI, partner at AfricInvest
Published date : 14 Oct 2020

In light of the Covid-19 crisis, what can we say about the resilience of African startups? Their strengths, but also their weaknesses and how to better support them? So many questions addressed by Khaled BEN JILANI, partner at AfricInvest.

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The Covid-19 crisis reminds us of the urgency to promote AgriTech
Published date : 16 Sep 2020
Author : Charlotte LIBOG

In the Covid-19 crisis context, Charlotte LIBOG, founder of the Think and Do Tank Afrique Grenier du Monde (AGM), calls upon governments to accelerate the creation of policies enabling the development of AgriTech. An opportunity to promote African agribusiness and reach an inclusive and sustainable growth.

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AfCFTA, an enabler of Digital Trade and E-Commerce - 4/4 - The E-Commerce and Digital Landscape in Africa
Published date : 11 Sep 2020
Author : Beatrice CHAYTOR

To promote the development of e-commerce in Africa, it remains to strengthen skills, especially SMEs. Two instruments can allow it to start developing its human, technological and commercial capacities in electronic commerce: the AfCFTA and the DTS.

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Kono Digital - Drones for more sustainable agriculture
Last update : Jun 25 2020
Burkina Faso
AgriTech | Drone

Kono Digital, an African startup specializing in the design of “Made in Africa” UAVs, provides services making this technological tool available to the region’s farmers.

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Zindi at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 in Africa
Last update : Jun 25 2020
South Africa
AI | Data science | E-health

Zindi, a South African platform that brings together 14,000 scientists, mobilizes its network to find African solutions to the Covid-19 crisis through online competitions designed to boost research.

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