Original version

BBC World Service East Asia

Click

Digital Planet

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Technological and digital news from around the world.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Digital Planet: Afrobytes – the Latest Tech from Africa

Factual: Science & Nature

Afrobytes – the Latest Tech from Africa

05/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Afrobytes – the Latest Tech from Africa

Afrobytes – leading African technology innovators meet in Paris to promote investment

Afrobytes – the latest tech from Africa; Twiga – the cryptocurrency for small retailers in Kenya; Sunubus – the new travel app in Senegal

More than 300 tech developers, investors and innovators are meeting in Paris at the Afrobytes conference.  This is a chance for African developers to pitch ideas for new startups, apps and technology to a global audience of investors.  Click is joined by BBC Africa Business Editor Larry Madowo and co-founder of Afrobytes Haweya Mohamed to discuss the future for African tech.

Getting access to loans in Kenya for small retailers can be tricky, but now cryptocurrency could solve this problem.  Twiga Foods already provides marketplaces (via an online platform) for farmers and urban retailers, now it is branching out to provide micro-loans secured via blockchain technology.  Grant Brooke, CEO of Twiga explains more.

Getting around Dakar on public transport is not easy.  Almost one quarter of the population of Senegal lives in the capital Dakar - a city notorious for congestion problems.  Now a group of four developers has created an app - Sunubus - to help the Dakar bus passengers find their bus and exactly when they will reach their destination.  Reporter Sasha Gankin arrived on time to his interview appointment with Papa Mor Niane, one of the developers, using the Sunubus app.


(Photo caption: Global technology © Getty Images)


Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Digital Planet

Afrobytes – the Latest Tech from Africa

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East Asia

About BBC World Service