Starlink keeps knocking on Africa's front door. Regulators won't open it. So the telcos that fought satellite now hold the ...

Kate Kallot on Leaving NVIDIA, Sovereign AI and Building Amini | Deep Learning Indaba 2026 “Local context is not something you can learn. It’s something you live.” Amini founder Kate Kallot, a TIME100 ...

Babacar Seck shares what investors really look for, from venture capital to IPOs, and what it takes to be investment ready. Podcasts June 15, 2026 — 1 min read At the recent Deep Learning Indaba in ...

Equinix, Inc., a digital infrastructure company listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, has announced that it has finalized its acquisition of Nigerian-founded and headquartered data center and ...

“An honour not for me, but for the village.” Prof. Vukosi Marivate, newly named to the UN Scientific Panel on AI, talks government advice, what a degree is worth in the AI era, and moving Africa from ...

What makes an AI business, really? Cassava’s Dr Prince Abudu explains why owning the infrastructure gives it an edge, how sliced GPUs make compute affordable for African budgets, and the one question ...

AfriClimate AI has launched Forecast4Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, with support from Google.org. The project combines machine learning, weather stations and African partnerships to deliver localised ...

The Fight for Fair AI: Abeba Birhane on Bias, Big Tech, and Africa’s Role Cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane explores AI ethics, Big Tech’s power and the risks of biased data, while highlighting how AI ...

Six years after the one laptop per child project in Kenya was announced and three years after implementation, the project was silently retired. We look into why it failed. Opinion March 29, 2022 — 3 ...

Four months ahead of Deep Learning Indaba Senegal's launch, Dr Shakir Mohamed, a founder and NeurIPS board member, shares insights on the Indaba's growth and its impact on AI research globally. Four ...

The story, according to Paul Makin, former M-PESA architect and professional in the UK banking sector, started before 2007. Makin says that the “original team was Nick Hughes and me. I came up with ...