Across the continent there has been a very long debate about the payment of interest on mobile money. What has the experience been like in Zimbabwe?

African innovation refers to innovative technologies, start-ups, and programs developed by Africans for African needs and challenges – African Innovation Foundation

a significant portion of adult South Africans are exposed to the necessary delivery of cash to get their social grants

South Africa’s informal savings market thrives – R44 billion collectively saved in approximately 820,000 stokvels.

There is a lot of attention on the effects and impact of Covid-19 on our daily lives and we are immersed in stories from all sectors in South Africa.

The health implications of COVID-19 go beyond the threat it poses itself as an illness.

We release wave 1 data for our multi-country Covid-19 Livelihoods Impact Survey.

As industries affected by physical-distancing COVID-19 measures race to reconfigure value chains, could platform business models hold the key to accelerated digitisation?

No country or continent is untouched by COVID-19; but developing markets will see more short- and long-term negative social and economic effects than the developed world.

No country or continent is untouched by COVID-19; but developing markets will see more short- and long-term negative social and economic effects than the developed world.

How to ensure inclusive innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Factors which turn specific city regions into engine rooms for tech innovation and taking solutions to market.

Policymakers, development organisations and private sector players, often rely on financial inclusion data uncovered through consumer or ‘demand-side’ surveys.

The new commitment, announced by Secretary of State Alok Sharma, represents the start of an important new approach to financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa.

The continued journey of data science interns, Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda

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The movement of Africa’s rapidly growing urban population will be shaped by digital technologies in the era of smart mobility.

Dieudonné Niyitanga and Samuel Mutinda's data internship journey.