Virtual Terminal Network, a Nigerian mobile payments operator, has launched a blockchain lab in Nigeria. The VCASH Blockchain Experiment (VBE) aims to make Nigeria a leader...
Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary, Joe Mucheru, recently announced that his ministry is in the process of creating a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) task force. The...
Nairobi, Kenya will host the World Blockchain Summit on March 22-23 2018. The conference aims to connect global blockchain experts, investors, and startups in the space, to discuss the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a counterfeit medicine as “one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to its identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can...
An economy is only as good as its gross domestic product (GDP), political climate, and technological development. In many parts of Africa, these three factors are...
2017 has been an incredible year for cryptocurrencies. In 2017, we witnessed the price of bitcoin rallying from $1,000 to over $20,000 as the digital currency has...
International remittances have played an important role in the growth of Africa’s emerging economies. Diaspora Africans have been using traditional money transfer services such as Western...
A major issue that African countries have been grappling with is academic certificate fraud. One country that makes for a good case study is Kenya where...
Many Kenyans rely on brokers and advocates when it comes to the transfer of land title deeds due to the tedious amount of paperwork and long queues...
On December 6, 2017, FORUS launched their Global Digital Exchange in an event held at the Rand Club in Johannesburg, South Africa. FORUS’ brainchild, the Global...
