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Plan a funeral, call out corruption or start a business — tough jobs all now made easier by a generation of tech-savvy Africans tackling local problems beyond the grasp of big tech. It was frustration that pushed Tanzanian engineer Maxence Melo to launch an anonymous, online whistle-blowing platform after his appeals to the media to investigate an array of questionable mega-project contracts were met with silence. His JamiiForums Web site launched in 2006, unmasking the murky money trails of A...

Platforms prioritise indigenous languages, data rights.

From online funeral service planning to voice-based messaging, Africa’s innovators are tapping local knowledge and cultures to develop their own tech platforms.

African innovators are creating online platforms to search for solutions to problems unique to the continent. The young innovators, pushing the boundaries beyond the grasp of Big Tech, insist that local knowledge is key to meeting local needs.

From online funeral service planning to voice-based messaging, Africas innovators are tapping local knowledge and cultures to develop their own tech platforms

Our goal is not to maintain low literacy - our goal is to make teaching, tech and business accessible," Sidibe said of his ad-backed platform. DATA SOVEREIGNTY Big tech has come under fire for harvesting and selling users' data by the world's main central bank umbrella group https://www.reuters.com/technology/big-tech-data-harvesting-comes-under-fire-by-world-central-bank-group-2022-05-05, the Bank for International Settlements, as well as activists https://news.trust.org/item/2020...

Plan a funeral, call out corruption or start a business — tough jobs all now made easier by a generation of tech-savvy Africans tackling local problems beyond the grasp of Big Tech. It was frustration that pushed Tanzanian engineer Maxence Melo to launch an anonymous, online whistleblowing platform after his appeals to

DÉFIS. Deux ans après la révolution, ces entités locales de bénévoles regrettent que le gouvernement de transition s’appuie autant sur eux pour combler ses déficiences.

With the social isolation caused by Covid-19, libraries have more than ever become a hub for people to connect - with each other and, through technology, with the wider world. With this in mind, Porirua Libraries have created a series of programmes to ...

Source: Porirua City Council  With the social isolation caused by Covid-19, libraries have more than ever become a hub for people to connect – with each other and, through technology, with the wider world. With this in mind, Porirua Libraries have created a series of programmes to help combat social isolation and enrich people’s daily lives. “Public libraries have been identified as key hubs for inclusion and community cohesion, and we have a real role to play in helping pe...