PORT LOUIS, Mauritius – Oct. 25, 2019: The pioneering Miss.Africa Digital, a DCA Digital Academy Pan-African program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust, has announced the winners of the fourth prestigious Africa-focused seed fund award. The 2019 Grand Prize Winner of the Prestigious Miss.Africa Digital Seed Fund award is KampaBits of Uganda. BasaliTech, Lesotho and Ace Commmunications, from The Gambia are both…
Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Sandra Juliet Ahiataku, the project lead for Kumasi Hive where Women In Tech 2018 cohort gain new skills from three Miss.Africa Digital Sponsored courses. This is a multi-space innovation place for rapid prototyping of ideas, budding local innovations, impact start-up support and promoting youth entrepreneurship as a way of addressing critical social economic…
“Parallel to my advocacy on the philosophy of positive “tech disruption”, and how it has the ability to create a welcome change in our societies, if we regularly engage in doing something out of our comfort zone for our mind, body and spirit, I’m a great believer that we will find ourselves in a much better space as human beings,…
Once again the holiday season is here and it is my favorite time of the year where I like to pull my head together and make time for reflection in the year that just concluded. Therefore, I am very happy to send to you this year’s Seasons Greetings on behalf of myself and DCA, in between my Island-hopping journeys in…
Port Louis, Mauritius, 17th July 2018 – The Pan-African trust program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) today announces the winners of the 2018 Miss.Africa Digital Seed Funding for STEM Programs. Kumasi Hive from Ghana wins the 2018 5,000 USD Grand Prize while, INTELLECT-Team at Laboratory of Technologies for Smart Systems (CRNS) Tunisia and Eco-Sol Consulting (Full STEM Ahead!) Seychelles will take home…
Kumasi Hive, Ghana has been named as a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Jorge Appiah, Co-founder/CEO of Kumasi Hive and Sandra Juliet Ahiataku, the project lead for Kumasi Hive; is a multi-space innovation place for rapid prototyping of ideas, budding local innovations, impact start-up support and promoting youth entrepreneurship as a…
INTELLECT-Team at Laboratory of Technologies for Smart Systems is located in Digital Research Center of SFAX has been named as a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Prof. Lamia CHAARI FOURATI, associate professor at Computer Science and Multimedia Higher Institute and researcher. She explains what the program entails in the interview below…
‘Full STEM Ahead!’ project by Eco-Sol Consulting (Seychelles) , is a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program spoke Ms. Malshini Senaratne, the Founder Eco-Sol Consulting (Seychelles) which runs the ‘Full STEM Ahead!’ project for girls. She speaks about their program in our interview below Can you tell us about this project that has applied for the…
Binti Tech, an organization that inspires girls and women in Tanzania and beyond to study and build careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) has been named as a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Miss.Africa Digital Program recently caught up with Dr. Mboni Kibelloh, Founder & Executive Director. She explains what Binti Tech is all about…
EldoHub, Kenya is a finalist for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund We spoke to its Founder Magdaline about the “Women And Girls In Stem Innovate & Mentorship Program For Social Change In Rift Western Region Of Kenya”. Here is how the interview went Can you tell us about this project that has applied for the 2018 Miss.Africa Seed Fund Awards?…