Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Techgist Africa | Africa Leading Tech News, Reviews and Tips
  • News
    • World News
    • World Regional News
    • News – East Africa
    • News – West Africa
    • News – South Africa
    • News – Middle East And North Africa
  • The Big 5
  • Specials
  • Opportunities
  • Innovators
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
Techgist Africa | Africa Leading Tech News, Reviews and Tips
  • News
    • World News
    • World Regional News
    • News – East Africa
    • News – West Africa
    • News – South Africa
    • News – Middle East And North Africa
  • The Big 5
  • Specials
  • Opportunities
  • Innovators
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
Techgist Africa | Africa Leading Tech News, Reviews and Tips
No Result
View All Result
Home The Big 5 Big 5 Daily

The Big 5 Daily: Google Announces Winners for its African Impact Challenge, MTN Joins IoT World Alliance

Tech Gist Africa by Tech Gist Africa
11/29/2018
in Big 5 Daily
0 0
0
The Big 5
0
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

We begin today’s big 5 Daily with interesting news across Africa.


Ahead of 2019 general election in Nigeria, 15 media organisations in the country have joined forces to fight misinformation as they launched a fact checking program called the CrossCheck Nigeria Project.  The project aims to get normally competing newsrooms to work together to investigate and disprove erroneous claims, particularly on social media.


Yesterday was a beautiful day for some South African, Kenyan and Nigerian innovators using technology to solve social problems on the continent.  For the first time in Africa, Google announced that four different won its Impact Challenge from the three African countries. The four winners will receive $250k each.


MTN Group has announced joining the IoT World Alliance, making it the first telecommunication company in African to join.  IoT World Alliance is a collaboration of mobile network operators aimed to adopt and run a globally connected business through smart business decisions.


Africa is gradually adopting drone technology to solve everyday problems and it has increased the numbers of techpreneurs emerging from the continent. The deployment of drone has increased in different sectors and have gone to the extent of saving lives by transporting blood from the banks to the hospital where it’s needed and the delivery of medical tools. See how Africa is embracing drone technology to solve its major problems.


The TechGist Africa team had a Sit-Down with FarmCrowdy, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform during their 2nd Year Anniversary. At the session, the founders talked about the challenges they faced setting up, their milestones, how the platform has revolutionized the Agric sector, plans for expansion, the launching of Digital Agriculture Day amongst other important issues.


…and that is all for the Big 5 Daily today. See you tomorrow.

ShareTweet
Plugin Install : Subscribe Push Notification need OneSignal plugin to be installed.
Tech Gist Africa

Tech Gist Africa

Tech Gist Africa is a new media and technology news platform that focuses on the untold stories of innovative ideas closely connected to technology news from Africa.

Related Posts

online bus ticket tech news Africa
Africa News

QuickBus Plans Expansion into Ghana and Nigeria following a successful Funding Round

by Tech Gist Africa
11/24/2020
0

QuickBus is a Kenyan based company that runs an online bus booking/ ticketing service and is in its final stages...

Read more
Huawei MateBook X Pro

Huawei to launch MateBook X Pro in South Africa

11/11/2020
apple macbook

Apple unveils the new generation of Mac

02/01/2021
African Women in Tech

Is there a need for a Design Thinking Process?

02/01/2021
Internet broadband

Econet group teams up with X’S project Taara to expand broadband services across Sub-Saharan Africa

11/11/2020
Next Post
Ghana’s Fintech, KudiGO Goes Live

Ghana’s Fintech, KudiGO Goes Live

The Big 5

The Big 5 Daily: Nigeria to Roll Out 5G Networks in 2020, Senegal is Planning to Digitize Payment to Improve Inclusive Growth

Senegal is Planning to Digitize Payment to Improve Inclusive Growth

Senegal is Planning to Digitize Payment to Improve Inclusive Growth

No Result
View All Result

The Big 5

Blockchain

The Role of Blockchain in Enhancing Africa’s Financial Systems and Security

by Tech Gist Africa
06/30/2025
0

...

Artificial Intelligence

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Industries Across Africa

by Tech Gist Africa
06/23/2025
0

...

Africa startups

Kenyan Startups Invited to Apply for €100,000 develoPPP Ventures Grant

by Tech Gist Africa
06/15/2025
0

...

Neuralink Elon Musk

Neuralink Secures $650 Million in Series E Funding to Advance Brain Implant Technology

by Tech Gist Africa
06/15/2025
0

...

Telegram Grok

Telegram Scores $300 Million xAI Deal to Integrate Grok Across One Billion Users

by Tech Gist Africa
06/15/2025
0

...

TGA

  • About us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

TGA

  • About us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

AFRICA

  • Made In Africa
  • People
    • Tech Leaders
    • Innovator of the Week
  • Start-Up Spotlight

NEWS

  • Africa News
  • World News

THE BIG 5

  • Big 5 Daily
  • Weekly News Roundup

SPECIALS

  • Guest Articles
  • How Tos
  • Op-Eds
  • Reviews
  • Tech Leaders
  • Tips

VIDEOS

  • Interviews
  • Tech Videos

TGA

  • About us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

AFRICA

  • Made In Africa
  • People
    • Tech Leaders
    • Innovator of the Week
  • Start-Up Spotlight

NEWS

  • Africa News
  • World News

THE BIG 5

  • Big 5 Daily
  • Weekly News Roundup

SPECIALS

  • Guest Articles
  • How Tos
  • Op-Eds
  • Reviews
  • Tech Leaders
  • Tips

VIDEOS

  • Interviews
  • Tech Videos

Copyright © 2020 Techgistafrica. All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • World News
    • World Regional News
    • News – East Africa
    • News – West Africa
    • News – South Africa
    • News – Middle East And North Africa
  • The Big 5
  • Specials
  • Opportunities
  • Innovators
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Contact

Copyright © 2019 TECHGISTAFRICA. All Rights Reserved

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.