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African and African American Entrepreneurs Collaborate to Build a Community in Ghana

(CNN)A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.Charlette N’Guessan is the first woman to win the award, which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent.N’Guessan and her team won the £25,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system …

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Nigerian startup 54gene partners US firm Illumina to launch Lagos genomics facility

Nigerian genetics startup 54gene has partnered US firm Illumina to power the creation of a world-class genomics facility in Lagos. Launched in 2019, 54gene is a research, services and development company founded that utilises human genetic data from diverse African populations to improve the development, availability and efficacy of medical products that will prove beneficial to Africans …

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How investing in digital infrastructure can make the difference to Africa’s economic recovery

Africa faces many challenges on its path to becoming a global economic competitor. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa’s development can either be a massive barrier to advancement – or, the spark that lights the fire of innovation and investment across the continent. There’s no denying that for most of the world, the …

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Akon finalizes deal to build a cryptocurrency city in Senegal

On January 13, pop singer Akon confirmed via tweet that his 2,000-acre, cryptocurrency-powered city in Senegal would soon break ground. The project was first announced in 2018, and the smart city will rise near the capital of Dakar, on a plot gifted to Akon by President Macky Sall. Oh, and Akon City will run on ‘AKoin,’ a proprietary cryptocurrency, …

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AI Expert from Senegal is helping showcase Africans in STEM

Adji Bousso Dieng will be Princeton’s School of Engineering’s first Black female faculty. Not only has Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI researcher from Senegal, contributed to the field of generative modeling and about to become one of the first black female faculty in Computer Science in the Ivy League, she is also helping Africans in …

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Do-‘Goodr’ Jasmine Crowe uses technology to reduce other companies’ carbon footprint

Before she founded a profit-for-good corporation that helps other companies strive for zero waste – which has so far diverted more than 2 million pounds of surplus food from landfills (about 1.8 million meals) – Jasmine Crowe used to feed people experiencing homelessness directly from the kitchen of her small one-bedroom apartment in Atlanta, something …

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