Posts by Dikonketso
Failure – so far – Bringing the Regional Economic Communities from Southern and Eastern Africa Closer Together
The East African Community (EAC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the Southern African Development Cooperation (SADC) Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement (TFTA) has not been put…
Read MoreInvestment and Venture Capital in Africa is Dominated by Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya and SA
A McKinsey report just out says that Africa’s fintech revenue may soar to $30.3bn by 2025 – eight times higher than in 2020 – as a growing, young, and under-banked…
Read MoreThe Fastest Data in Africa
According to new statistics in Ookla’s Q3 Canada Market Report for 2021, MTN in SA had the fastest Speed Score (63.52) and the highest Consistency Score (91.0%). Safaricom and Airtel…
Read MoreThe Largest (by visits) Ecommerce Sites in Africa, and Amazon’s Plans to Open in Nigeria as well as SA in 2023
According to AppsFlyer, ecommerce in Africa witnessed immense growth in 2021. There was a 55% increase in online retail spending, and the volume of downloads and installation of ecommerce apps…
Read MoreNews from Africa
Local Deliveries in SA The EFSA is setting up a working party to explore how best to provide guidance to local delivery services. This follows concerns expressed by some government…
Read MoreInsurance for Tech and Ecommerce – Your Input Needed!
Insurance for ecommerce is important and sometimes difficult to arrange. EFSA is looking at the market. Let me have your views, experiences, or advice (alastair@ecomafrica.org). There are, of course, different…
Read MoreSome Tips for Dealing with Investors
Global surveys show that, while around 30% of international trade finance goes to SMEs, banks reject some 40% of applications from such companies. Ecommerce companies suffer an even higher rejection…
Read MoreMeanwhile, at WhatsApp a Boot-camp for NGOs
Applications have opened for the Chat for Impact Accelerator, which offers social change organisations access to $500,000 in funding and additional support to scale their impact on WhatsApp. Enterprises focused…
Read MoreSnapchat Suffers from Advertising Downturn – a General Trend?
Snapchat has dropped from a company valued at $25.5bn when it was first put on the market to $17bn today, mainly due to the fall in advertising revenue over the…
Read MoreMiscellaneous
Super Wallets Take Over Mobile wallets today are a way of organizing existing financial accounts. The standard mobile wallet works as a safe, virtual storage for tokenized credit cards, debit…
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