New DFC, Mastercard Collaboration to Provide up to $50M in Potential Financing to Enable Digitisation

Washington DC, US// At the close of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Mastercard announced a collaboration to increase support to financial institutions, agricultural and technology companies, and other businesses engaged with Mastercard Community Pass, a digital platform designed to address infrastructure challenges that arise in digitizing rural communities, such as […]

Ghana Digitised its Address System: Its Failure Offers Lessons to Other African Countries Creating Smart Cities

Property address has long been a problem in Ghana Wikimedia Commons Louis Kusi Frimpong, University of Environment and Sustainable Development ; Matthew Abunyewah, Charles Darwin University; Seth Asare Okyere, University of Arizona, and Stephen Kofi Diko, University of Memphis Smart urbanism is about using digital technologies to address urban problems. Across the continent, digital technologies […]