Emerging economies in Africa often have relationships with developed nations through dark colonial pasts, but today, digital tech is connecting previously unexpected partners. Developed nations ...

An IAEA Computer Security Regulation Elements Drafting School was launched in August 2023, with the aim of helping countries develop their national computer security regulations. Africa’s demand for ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

The Deputy Director of Elections and Information Technology for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Rashid ...

Guerraoui is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at EPFL, where he is also Director of the Distributed Computing Laboratory. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...

MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa—The University of Johannesburg might have selected Joburg, rather than the bush, for the most recent Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research focused ...

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance writer based in New York City. To an outside observer, Olubayo Adekanmbi’s career in telecommunications epitomized success. At Airtel and MTN Group, two of the largest such ...

In May 2023 Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, embarked on a 17-city world tour to promote artificial intelligence (AI) tools. One of the stops in the first week of ...

FARGO - Here, English is essential in nearly all aspects of life, from finding a place to live and work to even just traveling around the two cities. Since February, local African immigrants have been ...

In September 2024, the Nairobi Court of Appeal ruled that two cases brought by 185 former Facebook and Instagram content moderators against Meta – one over allegedly poor working conditions and ...