It is without a doubt that smart cities extend beyond infrastructure and urban planning. For a smart city to work, it requires smart citizens and technology plays a pivotal role in enabling civic engagement. If a city wants to empower those who live in it, it requires initiatives that improve service delivery and technology is the solution to making e-government platforms a reality.
Tag: Rwanda
Empowering women through investment and financial inclusion
In this piece, Hortense Mudenge tells how financial inclusion can be a game-changer for African women across the informal economy.
ATI rebrands to ATIDI, opens its 2023 AGM in Recovery-prone Context
The Pan-African trade and investment development insurer, ATIDI, holds its Annual General Meetings in Kigali amidst global and regional recovery.
Toggle Market’s B2B ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ continues its expansion across the African continent and now launches in Rwanda
Toggle Market’s B2B BNPL product Toggle Finance is aimed at SMEs seeking trade finance alternatives across multiple industry sectors, and is also available for all […]
Are you a threat or an opportunity for biodiversity?
By Josephine Wawira Kigali, a city that rhythms with African charm, prides itself on biodiversity so well maintained, sprawling over green valleys and ridges, the […]
The Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) launches the inaugural Legatum Foundry Fellowship for entrepreneurs in Africa
Fellowship applications open on May 3, 2021 for entrepreneurs working and living in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. The Legatum Center for […]
Africa as a Driver of Technovation
Sustainable digital transformation, applied in the context of startups, tech hubs and big business is what will define Africa as the “new frontier,” enabling actionable […]
GUUD Africa Secures Tender to Work on East African Community Single Customs Territory Solution
– Project first started in 2016 where vCargo Cloud (“VCC”) worked on a Proof-of-Concept (“POC”) platform for the project – Completion of project will see […]
Hotel Developments in West Africa
For being the second largest Continent on earth, Africa has a wide range of options for hotel development in many of its regions having more […]
The New Creative Sector Workspace – Adapt, Innovate and Thrive Creative Africa Nexus Virtual Event
The Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX), a programme put in place by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to support Africa’s creative and cultural industries, announces a […]