Huawei
No Huawei, no cry

No Huawei, no cry

In May 2021 US president Joe Biden signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency” and blocked American companies from doing business with foreign tech companies on the grounds that they posed risks to...

Africa’s technological arms race

Africa’s technological arms race

Digital surveillance: real and present danger Telecommunications snooping has emerged as a fundamental threat to African journalists Many journalists and researchers will remember the mid-2000s as halcyon days, when a...

Digital jump

Digital jump

Kenya: leading in IT innovation M-Pesa money transfer service has led the way to better, faster business By Mark Kapchanga Before 2007, Dickson Rono would rely entirely on Kenya’s slow, cumbersome and expensive banking...