One year ago, Digital Africa and its partners launched Africa Next. More than a platform, it is a “community” dedicated to accelerating the financing of African startups with high growth potential. Investors who have joined Africa Next speak out.

Cameroon has created its first innovation center dedicated to education and technology for industrialization, called “InnoTechLab”. Its goal: contribute to inclusive and sustainable transformation through an industrial, technological and digital revolution.

Science, Technology and Innovation are expected to drive recovery from Covid-19. This is the conclusion of the UNCTAD which launches an ambitious program aimed at better exploiting technology to meet the challenges of sustainable development. With 2 targeted sectors: energy and agriculture.

The Covid-19 pandemic has galvanized the development of more than 120 health technology innovations that have been piloted or adopted in Africa, a new World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds.

The Algerian tech ecosystem is getting bigger. The last contribution to it, is a fab lab designed to develop the innovation made in Algeria.

I4Policy Foundation, in collaboration with its partners, Briter, Digital Africa, GIZ and AFD, launched a continent-wide survey on the impact of the health crisis on African entrepreneurs and to assess the measures and strategic interventions to be put in place to support them. Explanations given by Freda YAWSON, Lead Researcher, Startup & SME Policy Research, Innovation for Policy Foundation.

Algeria confirms progress towards the development of a Startup Act with the creation of a 10million-euro investment fund to support start-up companies.

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.

A figure of the Pan-African women’s tech scene, Kenyan Sheilah BIRGEN has been working for more than ten years to support young entrepreneurs across the continent. Specialist in innovation and strategy, she delivers exclusively solutions to improve the environment of startups.

In the coming decades, 80 % of jobs we know will have disappeared, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence. Is Africa ready? Not yet. But the continent can meet this challenge. Demilade OLUWASINA, International Business & Trade Faculty and Digital Economy Programmes Lead at the AfricanLeadership University in Rwanda, identifies gaps to be filled to manage this challenge.