Nairobi, Kenya. Three African scientists have been awarded the inaugural TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists, by TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world and the African ...

The coveted computer science degree has promised graduates six-figure salaries and exciting careers in high-tech spaces since the personal computer took off in the 1990s. As an academic discipline, ...

Emerging economies in Africa often have relationships with developed nations through dark colonial pasts, but today, digital tech is connecting previously unexpected partners. Developed nations ...

AI used to tackle poverty, translate languages African data seen vital to fighting racial bias More funding, wider digital access needed, say developers DURBAN, Feb 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

I have just returned to Nairobi from a behind-numbing eight hour trip from South-east Kenya – down near Mombassa. Unfortunately, despite the teeth-jarring off-road driving that had to be endured ...

First day (Sunday) in Nairobi - arrived off the day flight from London last night to an airport festooned with adverts for Safaricom – Vodafone's Kenyan subsidiary. Last week was the twentieth ...