The foundation’s aim is to provide young Africans with the ICT skills they need to close the continent’s rising skills gap. Seventy percent of the positions in the initiative are reserved for African women. According to a PwC analysis published in 2020’s Digital Skills Insights, 79 percent of worldwide CEOs are concerned about the availability of digital skills in their workforces, with 87 percent of African CEOs feeling the same way....

Apparently, agriculture accounts for 32 percent of East Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sadly, those engaged in agriculture are typically elderly. The youth continue to shy away from this field despite the fact that this sector accounts for about 70 percent of employment opportunities in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The #Blog4Dev Contest is in its third year running. This year they are seeking to find out how to make agriculture ‘cool’ for the youth....

3 Suspected hackers have been arrested on suspicion of cyber crime. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations confirmed that two Kenyan men were trying to break into the National Transport And Safety Authority (NTSA) and the TIMS online portals. The suspects were found in Ngara and were found with KSH 1.1M in cash and USD 100, three motor vehicles and fiber laser cutting machines that they were using to cut number plates....

If you have a file in any other format such as Excel or Word then you will most probably be asked to convert it into PDF and then submit it again. This is a thing that most people face, they have to convert the files that they made in other formats to PDF. Today, we will be taking a look at 3 Websites to Convert Excel to PDF for Free....

This app notifies and records all the incoming and outgoing payments generating mini cash flow statements. The app was generated from Safaricom and has been said to have many advantages as it also gives users the option of saving the statements in phone memory or move them to the mail. In short, for those people who use M-Pesa for almost everything then this would be the ideal application to have....

Assistant, Android’s official voice command software (available for iOS in the Apple App Store), is a useful tool that has been impressing us more and more through each update it brings. You may think it’s only used to input voice-to-text in messages, emails and Google searches, but there’s much more under the hood than you might expect. We’ve been keeping tabs on the powerful features in Google Assistant and decided to list some valuable tricks that you may not have heard about....

The fund will support promising new technologies for indications that the venture capital industry has largely ignored. According to Glenn Rockman, managing partner at Adjuvant Capital, “As viruses like Ebola, Zika, and SARS-CoV-2 have clearly demonstrated, wealthy countries are vulnerable to these pathogens as well. Our new fund will finance cutting-edge research so we are better prepared for threats old and new alike, with the ultimate goal of saving or improving millions of lives by bringing urgently-needed drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical devices to market....

Social media marketing (SMM), in a nutshell, holds crucial importance when it comes to making an online presence. Many companies now hire top strategists, marketers and reputable agencies when it comes to making SMM campaigns. Some companies, particularly small-sized, tend to do this on their own due to budget constraints and end up making certain mistakes that do nothing but waste their resources. Some of the most common SMM mistakes people are prone to make are:...

1. Boutique Companies vs. the Big Guys There is an enduring notion that boutique PR firms specialize in quirky ideas and dedicated services, which is true to a point. While smaller companies are very committed to clients’ success, their teams are also well aware of mainstream developments. They skillfully juxtapose traditional concepts with innovative techniques. For example, clients evaluating available services from violetpr.com find that the firm’s ideas are inventive but still offer the polish and sophistication of larger operations....

A shelter that a few hackers have not denied themselves of, accordingly taking different individual data, ID information or in any event, dispatching the spread of infections through this defect. A divert to a fake login page Apple AirTags are helpful consistently for the individuals who effectively lose their keys or fear losing their materials. The Airtag works by being attached to the object so that in return, it produces a sound or conveys a Bluetooth message to make it simple to discover your lost bag The issue is that this product doesn’t appear to be ensured against Cross-site scripting security weaknesses....

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Opening the event, Silicon Cape Director, Zimkhita Buwa, said: “Africa is synonymous with opportunity. Yes, we have incredible challenges, but we are not waiting on the side-lines for the world to provide us with solutions, we are creating our own solutions using our own technology.” AfricArena Founder, Christophe Viarnaud, continued: “Africa is rising. The amount of investment has doubled every year for the last three years, particularly in the tech sector....

Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt remain emphatically Africa’s “big four” from a funding perspective, accounting for 77 per cent of funded startups and 89.2 per cent of total investment. Nigeria (85), Egypt (82) and South Africa (81) lead the way from a ventures perspective, but when it comes to total combined raised capital it is Kenya that is Africa’s leader, with startups from the East African country raising over US$190 million in funding in 2020....

In a redundancy notice sent to staff yesterday, the firm’s chief executive Mugo Kabati issued the consultative period between the business and staff, for any suggestions, ideas, and queries. The company said the move is aimed at achieving efficiency in its operations by matching its cost needs with its workforce. Telkom Kenya will discontinue the transferred business and must terminate the employees that are currently deployed to serve in these functions as a consequence of the transaction....

Factors Determining Your Salary in the EU Your Expertise Like everywhere else, your experience is the biggest factor in determining your salary in EU. According to many studies, people who have an experience of two to five years get about 32% raise in the salary of beginners. The percentage of increase in salary rises to 36% if you have experience of five years or more. This percentage keeps on increasing as the numbers of years of experience are added on....

For the time being, if you want to buy a 5G-capable smartphone, you’ll have to spend a lot of money. The Galaxy S21 line, for example, starts at KES 80K and goes up from there. Still, Samsung has a couple of 5G-powered midrangers such as the A52 5G, but the Korean company is yet to bring them here. Apple’s iPhone 12 series is also 5G ready, but Apple products are expensive and out of reach for the majority of Kenyans....

Students can rent the neighbourhood of their choice through the company’s website which has been made possible with the partnerships Alosab has established with landlords and property owners. Students can therefore book houses that are close to their campuses and save a good sum of money with the costs coming with having to commute to campus premises from a far neighbourhood. Entrepreneurs and seasoned professions will also enjoy the benefits Alosab has created by providing a platform where they can look for a ready work space within their desired business district and event centers in the Alosab’s pre-approved locations at their convenience....

In iOS 16, a fast access pop-up window for copying and pasting opens when you press the screen with three fingers at once. You may also cancel or reenter text by simultaneously swiping with three fingers. Unfortunately, touching with three fingers also works in video games. In numerous rhythm games, including Rotaeno Rotary Rhythm and Rhythm Source Point Arcaea, tapping the screen with three fingers can trigger pop-ups and cause the game to be interrupted, according to accounts on Twitter and other social media sites....

Kenyan schools have been shut down as a measure to contain spread of the Coronavirus. With more than 15 million primary and secondary students at home, the Ministry of Education announced it would broadcast lessons up to eight hours daily through dedicated radio and television channels. Azuri solar-powered satellite TV is helping rural children across the country to access the new education channels and ensures they are equally benefiting from the national initiative as fellow students in urban areas, connected by the grid....