<p>Launched in 2020, Katapult Africa aims to support and develop the growing impact community in East Africa and the wider continent.</p>

Female students continue to top national exams and science courses. These results are due largely to the efforts by the government and civil society to promote access and success for girls at all levels of education. The ultimate obstacle, namely social constraints still needs to be overcome.

Rwanda, a proponent of strategic partnerships likely to accompany its digital ambitions, will join forces with the giants Google and Samsung to strengthen its innovation ecosystem. A new sequence that reflects the willingness of the country’s authorities to stand out on the digital scene.

After Konza Technopolis in Kenya and Kigali Innovation City in Rwanda, the region is home to a new institution dedicated to STEM: The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Center inaugurated in Kigali. This confirms the interest that states in this region show for high value-added fields.

“Scale” Series – Leila RWAGASANA, Director of Partnerships at Irembo, Rwanda’s pioneering e-government services platform, reflects in this interview on the challenges of scaling up for the continent’s growing companies.

The Smart Classroom program, operational since 2016, has enabled millions of Rwandan school children to access and learn about digital tools. The key will be to put that right and extend the initiative to all the country’s educational institutions.

While Africa has lost 55 billion dollars in travel and tourism since the coronavirus pandemic began, tour operators, in their bid to revive the industry, are innovating by offering tourists virtual tourism experiences. More than an alternative to the COVID crisis, a confirmed trend…Focus.

On the sidelines of French President Emmanuel MACRON’s visit to Kigali that sealed the rapprochement between France and Rwanda through a series of cooperation agreements, a new axis in Franco-Rwandan relations is taking shape. Around digital development.

Analysis: while the example of Jumia reveals the difficulty of achieving the same profitability of their model, the future of these delivery platforms is very much at stake in their “local” dimension. Do they help promote Made in Africa products? That’s what is at stake. Part three (final).

Jumia, Glovo, Gozem… Super-Apps are multiplying on the continent. Each one has its own model and range of services. If their ambitions to expand regionally have been slowed down by COVID-19, the pandemic has also revealed their flexibility and their ability to adapt to the new needs of the markets where they are based. Part two.