The ICT Funding Gap in Kenya

 The Missing Middle

While capital has flowed rapidly to satisfy the needs of the largest and — thanks to the microfinance boom – the smallest African companies, SMEs have fallen into a “missing middle.” SMEs in the missing middle are … Read More

Tanzanian & Rwandan Startups Making Content Publishing via SMS Work

According to an official report released by the GSMA, Africa is now the second largest mobile market in the world. The report showed that over the past five years, Africa’s mobile subscribers has increased by 20 percent every year, and … Read More

Startup Watch: Beauty of Rwanda

We recently wrote about Beauty of Rwanda, a Rwandan startup that aims to sell Rwandan crafts online. We caught up with the founder of the site, Salha Kaitesi to find out a bit more about the site, the motivation behind … Read More

Promoting Rwandan Crafts Using E-commerce

We came across an interesting website ‘Beauty of Rwanda‘ founded by Salha Kaitesi that aims to promote Rwandan crafts by providing an online market for Rwandan hand crafters while preserving Rwandan culture for the next generation:

Beauty of Rwanda … Read More

Afrinnovator Year 2010 in Review Part 2 – July to December

One more day to the close of 2010 and the decade and today we continue on our journey through the year that’s just passed. Yesterday we took a look at key happenings as we covered them here on Afrinnovator. Today … Read More

Futures of Technology in Africa

We recently announced a new section of Afrinnovator.com for Book Reviews.

For our first review, we’ll be looking at a book that was put together following a research on the ‘Futures of Technology in Africa’ done by Jasper Grosskurth a futurist … Read More

So you want to be the Silicon Valley of Africa?

This is the second installment in a series of guest articles to be done by Mbwana Alliy, a Tanzanian tech entrepreneur on the state of the Tanzanian tech scene. In the first installment Mbwana took an overview of several startups … Read More

[BREAKING] President Paul Kagame (Rwanda) Co-Chairs New UNESCO,ITU Global Broadband Commission

The ITU and UNESCO jointly announced a Global Broadband Commission aiming at looking into the growth and application of broadband around the world in the development of knowledge economies and applying communications technology to human development issues such as education, … Read More