Mobile technology puts African business owners in the driving seat

With smartphone penetration ramping up across Africa, the continent’s businesses have an opportunity to use mobile technology to become more efficient, productive, and responsive in the way they do business.

According to the Ericsson Mobility Report for 2015 (http://www.apo.af/uwS8Ft), there were more than 910 million mobile subscriptions in Africa by the first quarter of 2015. A growing number of these mobile users are now walking around with powerful smart devices that give them access to...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

13 May

From Chili to Kili: Driving change from a bike seat

>Growing up in abject poverty with only a single meal a day, Elvis (Lelo) Munis had to get a job. One of these jobs was being a tour guide on Mt. Kilimanjaro which helped him finance his high school and a training course for naturalist and tour guiding.

 

9 years ago

Michuzi

EAC TO COLLABORATE WITH THE NELSON MANDELA AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NM-AIST) TO ENHANCE THE COMMUNITY’S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera, EAC Secretary General (left), being greeted upon arrival to NM-AIST grounds by the Institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Burton Mwamila.hhhAmb. Dr. Richard Sezibera, EAC Secretary General (centre), handing over a gift token of the EAC flag and other publications to NM-AIST’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Burton Mwamila (second left). Celebrating in this auspicious moment are Aloysius Chebet, EAC Principle Education Officer (second right) and Prof. Lughano Kusiluka (far...

 

9 years ago

BBC

15 Sep

High-speed mobile puts Africa and India on fast track

How Africa and India are zooming into the fast lane

 

10 years ago

Tolerance.Ca

07 Aug

In Tanzania, using mobile technology to reunite families

In Tanzania, using mobile technology to reunite families
Tolerance.ca
KIGOMA, United Republic of Tanzania, 5 August 2015 – Louis Cubahiro, 17, recently arrived in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, after he fled the volatile situation in Burundi. “There was chaos,” he says. Read complete article. © Unicef - Wednesday ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 May

Experts bank on mobile technology to fight disease

Researchers in Tanzania are banking on the use of mobile communications technology as a new solution for tackling the country’s health challenges, it has been revealed.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Feb

Mobile phone technology to speed up malaria fight

Tanzania is yet to benefit from mobile phone technology in the fight against malaria. Handsets, which were previously used for only calling and sending short text messages, are now used in improving the quality of life socially and economically.

 

9 years ago

Dewji Blog

10 Dec

UNICEF, Government and Push Mobile Use Technology to Contain Cholera

UNICEF Tanzania’s Representative a.i., Paul Edwards and Freddie Manento, CEO of Push Mobile, sign a partnership to send life-saving information on cholera by SMS to over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users. (Credits: UNICEF Tanzania/2015/Bisin).

Today, Tanzania’s Government, UNICEF and Push Mobile, a mobile communication company providing SMS aggregation services across all the available mobile networks in Tanzania, have signed a partnership to reach over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

PUSH MOBILE MEDIA LTD, PARTNERS WITH APALYA TECHNOLOGIES FOR OTT VIDEO STREAMING TECHNOLOGY

Push Mobile Managing Director, Freddie Manento (L) exchange documents contract with Apalya Technologies International Business, Rishabh Gunjal, Apalya to provide best-in-class mobile video solutions across East and Central Africa. 
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s leading interactive mobile communications technology provider, Push Mobile has partnered with Apalya Technologies, South Asia’s leading technology platform provider to enhance mobile video and live TV streaming experience in Tanzania and...

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

AFRICAN BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE AND GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA TOURISM INITIATIVES

 Mkuu wa Utawala wa Ubalozi wa Tanzania nchini Marekani Bibi Lily Munanka wa pili kulia pichani pamoja na mabalozi wengine walipotembelea bandari ya Philadelphia ambayo inapokea bidhaa nyingi kutoka Afrika hasa mazao ya kilimo.
 Bibi Munanka akizungumzia kuhusu Tanzania na fursa zilizopo kwenye mkutano wa African Business Roundtable.
 Bibi Munanka akijadiliana jambo na mwakilishi kutoka ubalozi wa Afrika Kusini kwenye mkutano wa The Global African Diaspora Tourism.
Mwakilishi wa Ubalozi, wa...

 

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