Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa has become the first municipality in Africa and South Africa, and the third in the world to implement specific, cutting-edge green electricity technology. It has adopted Schneider Electric’s green RM AirSeT air-powered ring main unit, which will reduce the Municipality’s carbon footprint by using pure…
Masdar and Africa50 Join Forces to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition Across Africa
By Opondo Henry Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar has announced a partnership with Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform to identify, fast-track and scale clean energy projects across the continent. The UAE’s clean energy champion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Africa50 which will work to bridge the infrastructure…
Climate change, COVID-19 reveal global society still against feminist agenda
By Henry Neondo The climate crisis and the COVID-19 have exposed anti-gender rights worldwide, Dr. Maliha Khan, President and CEO of Women Deliver, said at the opening ceremony of the Women Deliver Conference 2023 (WD2023) that is holding in Kigali, Rwanda “The only way we can push past them is if we double down on…
Niyel Sparks Vital Dialogue on Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Africa
Niyel, a leading international impact-driven campaign, advocacy, and African public affairs firm, played a pivotal role in strengthening public policy and advocacy as one of the core organisers of the inaugural AfricAI Conference 2023. The conference, themed “Advancing Responsible and Open AI Ecosystems in Africa,” provided a platform for thought leaders, policymakers, researchers, and civil society representatives…
DNA repair test takes ‘hit and miss’ out of chemotherapy
A personalised test that tells how well chemotherapy, radiotherapy or gene therapy will work on individual patients is now approved for UK, US, EU and Japanese patents. It will give many people with serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, HIV and cystic fibrosis the choice to opt out of gruelling rounds of treatment that, for…
EY builds data science capacity in-house with Zindi
EY South Africa has this week announced the winners of the EY Data Science Competition, an exciting internal event run on Zindi to encourage learning and development in the AI and data science space. The objective of this challenge was to create machine learning models that use open-source CO2 emissions data (from Sentinel-5P satellite observations)…
Africa Prize announces finalists for the continent’s largest engineering innovation award
Scalable engineering innovations were created to address high gas prices by retrofitting motorbikes to run on batteries; easily diagnose and treat uterine health issues without anaesthetic; recycle lithium-ion laptop batteries into power packs for affordable electricity; and connect local communities through a digital rescue network to form community policing groups; have been selected as finalists…
People, Power, and the Politics of the 2023 Financial Bill
By Imali Ngusale The odyssey of broadening the Kenyan tax net has been met with uproar and rage owing to the hauling proposals in the Financial Bill 2023. The Bill has so far been declared as one of the most contentious levies in Kenya by CSOs representatives and some Members of Parliament “The 2023…