Author: Akin Naphtal

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who goes by “CZ”, has announced forming an industry recovery fund as the FTX crisis tanks the crypto market. Binance’s recovery fund will help long-running successful projects affected by the liquidity crisis. Crypto platforms can contact Binance Labs to check their qualification for the market recovery fund. Furthermore, Binance CEO also requested other firms to co-invest in the recovery fund and help recover the market. The crypto prices have crashed and institutional investors losing confidence after one of the largest crypto exchanges FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Tron founder Justin Sun looks to support and…

BY CHRISTINE GIBSON “Oh, mute him. He won’t stop talking about blockchain.” That was the general sentiment in the boardroom toward the voice coming over the speakerphone. It was spring 2016, and strategists at a major technology company were exploring potential investments in financial technologies. A staff member on the conference call was gushing at length about blockchain’s potential — to a degree that eventually exasperated his colleagues. Except Maggie Love. Not quite three years out of college, Love, who worked in product strategy, left the meeting intrigued. What was it about this technology that could excite someone so much?…

BY DEBORAH LYNN BLUMBERG When Deana Burke co-founded Boys Club, a “no bro zone for the crypto curious,” in 2021, she wanted to show women how they could benefit from cryptocurrency-related technology. Their voices are critical to making sure the crypto economy is built to benefit everyone, said Burke and other female crypto leaders who gathered last week to mark the launch of The Belle Block. The group is a new Mastercard-led initiative aimed at bringing more women and underrepresented minorities into crypto and blockchain. The push to expand inclusion in crypto comes at a time when the industry has developed…

The Girls in ICT programme was introduced in 2012 by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider studies and careers in the growing field of Information and Communication Technologies (ITUs). The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, under the stewardship of Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister for Communications and Digitalisation (MP, Ablekuma West), since 2017, has adopted the initiative, as a platform to equip girls between the ages of 9 and 15 years (Upper Primary to Junior High School), with knowledge and skills in basic ICT and Coding. The…

During the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, FIFA will share the most modern insights, metrics and performance data in tournament history with the worldwide TV and online audience, together with the participating teams and their players. Developed by the FIFA High Performance team and led by FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsène Wenger, the enhanced football intelligence service will offer new and exciting metrics to enrich the coverage and analysis of every game at the FIFA World Cup 2022™. Every match will have its own unique set of in-match and post-match enhanced football intelligence visuals presented as augmented reality…

Vodafone Group Plc has announced that Christine Ramon will be appointed as a non-executive director with immediate effect. Christine is one of Africa’s most senior female business executives, having recently been CFO of two of South Africa’s leading businesses. Christine, a qualified chartered accountant, served as a Non-Executive Director of the International Federation of Accountants, the global organisation for the accountancy profession. Prior to this, Christine served as a Non-Executive Director at MTN, the South African telecommunications company with a market capitalisation of £15 billion, and cement business Lafarge, until its merger with Holcim. Before that, Christine was a Non-Executive…

The Minister for Communications and Digitalization of Ghana, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has stated that, all SIM cards in Ghana that are yet to be fully registered will be disconnected by the end of the month of November. The statement was contained in a press release signed by the Minister on Friday November 11, 2022. The Minister indicated that, there were still many SIM cards that had gone through the first phase of the registration but were still yet to complete phase two of the exercise, and so as a result, would be blocked if not fully registered by the deadline. “Despite…

French telecommunications firm Orange has announced the opening of an Orange Digital Centre in Botswana, a one-stop place entirely dedicated to the development of digital skills and innovation. The digital centre is Orange’s 12th, following openings in Tunisia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mali, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Madagascar, Morocco, and Liberia. Spread over 390 sq. m, it brings together four strategic programs of the Orange group, namely, a coding school, a solidarity FabLab – one of the Orange Foundation’s digital manufacturing workshops, and an Orange Fab start-up accelerator, supported by Orange Ventures Middle East and Africa, the investment fund of Orange…

Nigerian startup CutStruct Technology has raised a US$$600,000 pre-seed funding round to assist in the development and scaling of its B2B construction procurement product LiveVend. Founded by John Oamen and Tayo Odunsi, CutStruct has built LiveVend, a construction procurement platform that allows buyers like real estate developers and contractors to engage vetted vendors while enjoying other services such a transportation, goods-in-transit insurance and trade credit. “We connect construction vendors to buyers. All the complex work takes place in the background. The vendor vetting, sorting out the appropriate logistics, ensuring the goods are insured, guaranteeing fulfilment and securing financing – these…

As world leaders convene to take urgent action at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference, a talented group of secondary students in Egypt are supporting their endeavours by raising climate awareness amongst their peers. Refugee and host community students supported by Instant Network Schools (INS, Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s digital education programme) have taken part in a series of competitions to build awareness around climate change, its consequences and how everyone can contribute to a more sustainable way of life. With support from the Ministry of Education, over 360 students worked individually or in teams to…