Africa Tech Radio

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects over 200 million women and children worldwide and the risk of death for children under age five with Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is 1.75 times more than for children without this deficiency.

 

Learn more about how Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) is solving this problem from Chinonyerem Ezem and Chimezirim Iwueke, the Co-founders of an agro-tech startup which is focused on developing the Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) value chain to enhance nutrition and reduce hunger across Nigeria called AgroArena.

Thinking of switching to Tech?

 

PR & Marketing Manager with FTX in Africa, Harri Obi chats with Bookii on how to go about it.

Do digital firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber pay taxes to countries in Africa where they have customers?

 

Can African countries make money from these big tech companies? How will these taxes be calculated and paid?

 

An Accountant with Ascension Consulting Services, Ife Ajao, provides some answers to these questions under what is known as Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS).

With more than 50 million independents having identified themselves as content creators, curators, and community builders on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Clubhouse etc, we have a new economic trend known as the Creative/Creator Economy.

 

This trend and generation of micro-entrepreneurs currently valued at $20 billion, with estimations that it could grow to a $104.2 billion market in 2022, is what the Founder of Selar.co, Douglas Kendyson, and the CEO of Ckrowd Africa Technology, Adebayo Kayode, discuss in this episode.

Asides cinema and entertainment, medical and diagnostics, high risk job training, tourism, shopping and even real estate are industries where virtual reality is revolutionising the experience of practitioners and consumers.

 

In this chat with the founder of Ghana’s leading provider of interactive virtual tours and dynamic digital experiences Dobiison; Selasie Awity, we discuss the huge potentials of virtual reality to businesses.

Litter in Lagos gets whisked away by the rains and waterways and ends up forming piles of trash on the beaches.

 

In this episode, we discuss the issues of the plastic pollution in Lagos and the place of sports and youth communities to assist in solving this challenge, is the President of Statewide Waste and Environmental Education, Ambassador Phillips Obuesi.

Fatherhood, Paternal Bonds, and the influence of fathers in society can never be over celebrated.

 

Two young parents from Lagos, Nigeria; Ebun Amusan and Dolapo Onaduja, celebrate fatherhood in this episode.

The Sabi Toolkit, a publication of Shine Your Eye (an initiative of Cybersafe Foundation for senior citizens), is a senior citizens’ relatable guide to internet safety.

 

It aims to help the elderly and less tech savvy people around us avoid being scammed and protect themselves online.

 

The Programs Manager for Cybersafety for Seniors a.k.a Shine Your Eye at CyberSafe Foundation, Uchechi Kama, shares some interesting details about the toolkit and its importance.

This is the second part of the episode which answers the question What is Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and why you should be interested in Conversational AI.

 

The Founder and CEO of the Africa Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit, Sydney Eneremadu and the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with the IITPSA (Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa), Johan Steyn, share their thoughts on the question?

This first part answers the question What is Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and why you should be interested in Conversational AI.

 

The Founder and CEO of the Africa Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit, Sydney Eneremadu, and the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics with the IITPSA (Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa), Johan Steyn, share their thoughts on the questions?