Day: November 23, 2021

Published by Business Daily As Jay Shapiro, CEO and founder, Usiku Games, spoke to the Digital Business at his office in the Diamond Plaza in Nairobi, he was upbeat about the venture he founded in October 2018. The social impact gaming company seeks to “hashtag game for good,” he says. The company, which has 20 […]

Published by Al-Araby Water-scarce Egypt aims to more than quadruple desalination capacity by granting private companies concessions from its sovereign wealth fund to build 17 plants over the next five years with sustainable solar energy. The plan fits into Egypt’s push to diversify its sources of fresh water for a fast-growing population as it faces […]

Published by The Bangkok Post Russia’s boldest moves to censor the internet began in the most mundane of ways — with a series of bureaucratic emails and forms. The messages, sent by Russia’s powerful internet regulator, demanded technical details — like traffic numbers, equipment specifications and connection speeds — from companies that provide internet and […]

Published by Reuters By Paul Sandle and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Facebook Inc will fuel more violent unrest around the world unless it stops its algorithms pushing extreme and divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday. The former employee, who accused the social media giant of putting profit before people at […]

Published by Nigerian Tribune President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Africa’s ambition of restoring over 100 million hectares of the degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable. He gave the assertion, on Monday, in Glasgow, Scotland at the Climate Change Summit, COP 26, side event on the Great Green Wall (GGW), co-hosted by French President […]