Safeboda is a league of proffessional boda drivers who came up with a reckoning solution to improve safety and spur professionalism to the motorbike industry. As a matter of fact, the Safeboda community has attracted more investors to focus on the fast rising industry and Uber, Taxify, Dial Jack and Pikime are some of the ride hailing services trying their take in the Safeboda dominated wing.
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have announced the top 10 African startups selected for their Future 4 Africa Accelerator. All startups listed were chosen basing on their aerospace based soltuions aiming at solving social-community challenges like transportation, healthcare and agriculutre in the pipeline.
The fate of Crypto currencies was never known 10 years ago, but 10 years to the future the talk of Cash and banks will be a long gone story with the latter left to regulate fiat prices where relevant. In 2019, the horoscope sights bulls coming back into play after the terrible loss a few months back and so, this might be the end of cash in some countries around the world
The ASME Innovation showcase (ISHOW) is an annual global innovation challenge that breeds startups to the sphere. This year, the competition is focused on bringing to book the best hardware startups all over the world with key focus to East Africa where Kenya will be the regional challenge capital.
In the year 2017, Bank of Uganda directed all Mobile Money operations in Uganda to be interoperable between the telecommunications companies operating in Uganda. This move was aimed at ensuring that customers from different networks would be able to seamlessly send and receive funds directly across all networks.
Online shopping in East Africa has transpired from a corporate service to an all-round service that can be used by anyone with internet access. Aligning the smartphones revolution in East Africa, the need for more solutions is shooting up high and has seen Tuskys join the market dominated by Jumia and Kilimall in Kenya.
