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Balancing Inclusion Through Mobile Money and Taxation of the Previously Untaxed

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Balancing Inclusion Through Mobile Money and Taxation of the Previously Untaxed

Governments’ enthusiasm of mobile money as a means to include the previously unbanked, has always had a second side to the coin – the hope that inclusion will result in…

Back to COP – Investment Urgently Needed, and Carbon Credit Markets for Africa

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Back to COP – Investment Urgently Needed, and Carbon Credit Markets for Africa

Ahead of the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 28), the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has launched country-by-country economic reports to guide African policymakers in their discussions…

African Fintechs Continue to Attract Record Levels of Acquisitions

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on African Fintechs Continue to Attract Record Levels of Acquisitions

Disrupt Africa’s “Finnovating for Africa” publication, released every 2 years since June 2017, tracks the extraordinary development of the fintech ecosystem across Africa. The fourth edition of the report was…

PPRO Publishes Stats on Ecommerce

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on PPRO Publishes Stats on Ecommerce

According to PPRO The average online shopper in South Africa spends $166 a year with ecommerce merchants, rising to $192 by 2027. In 2023, the South African ecommerce market will be…

The African Internet Registry Has Problems

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on The African Internet Registry Has Problems

AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa: a non-profit, nongovernmental Internet governance organization, which operates a registry for unique internet protocol (IP) numbers that serve as network addresses.…

SA Information Regulator Investigates Data Breach of DisChem’s Customers

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on SA Information Regulator Investigates Data Breach of DisChem’s Customers

The Regulator has invited both DisChem and its third party service provider, Grapevine, to explain a major breach which has allegedly lost details of 3.6m of DisChem’s clients earlier this…

Ending Plastic Pollution in Africa

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Ending Plastic Pollution in Africa

Addressing the Third Session of the Inter-Governmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) on Ending Plastic Pollution in Nairobi on 13 November, President Ruto of Kenya emphasized the pivotal role of combating plastic…

AfriLabs Annual Conference

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on AfriLabs Annual Conference

For over a decade, AfriLabs has been at the forefront of cultivating a vibrant tech ecosystem across the African continent. Through the strength of community networks, the organization has become…

Road Transport – New Report by the AfDB

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Road Transport – New Report by the AfDB

The cost of transportation in Africa is on average 50 – 175%  higher than other parts of the world as a result of poor infrastructure. Between 60,000km to 100,000km of…

Providing for the Youth of Africa

By Alastair Tempest | Nov 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Providing for the Youth of Africa

The other day I was listening to the IEC talking about registering voters for SA’s elections next year. The IEC expects to register 42m out of 60m total population. In…