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Benin, Ghana and Rwanda have connected their national identity systems to a shared data exchange and verified identities across borders, the first technical step in a Smart Africa pilot for cross-border digital ID.
Smart Africa, the alliance of African governments and private-sector partners, announced on 20 October 2026 in Kigali, Rwanda, that the countries had com...
Somalia’s House of the People has approved the Digital Transactions Bill, setting up a legal framework for digital payments, according to the Ministry of Communications and Technology.
The ministry said in a statement distributed on 21 October 2026 from Mogadishu, Somalia, that 137 Members of Parliament voted in favour at a plenary session. The ministry, along with ...
More than 150 students at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) signed up for a hackathon run by South African mobile operator Vodacom and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first milestone in an AI partnership announced in July 2026.
Vodacom said on 12 October 2026 that the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge took place at Vodacom World in Johannesburg, South Africa. Stude...
Only 14.3% of Madagascar’s population used mobile internet in 2025, and a GSMA report says 4 policy reforms could connect more than 1.1 million additional people and add MGA 4.1 trillion (Malagasy ariary) to GDP by 2031.
The GSMA (GSM Association), the mobile industry body, launched the report, Madagascar Digital Economy, at its Digital Africa Summit in Ant...
Cassava Technologies is adding NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models to its African AI platform, so enterprises can call them as a service without building their own model-serving infrastructure.
The Pan-African technology group announced on 21 October 2026 that it is expanding its AI Factory with the Nemotron family. The models will run as a locally hosted, managed inferen...