While it has been considered that most countries in Africa are still in their development phase, Africans are yet to fully play along with the new innovations in technology today.
Meanwhile, the relationship with African countries and ICT in no doubt is recording very stable progress so far, as the African Governments have taken it a step further in the mainstream adoption of biggest technology innovations in their respective countries.
So in this post, we will be showing you the latest technology trends to look out for in the African Continent, which is meant to address common issues in Africa.
Latest Trending Technologies to Look Out for In African Countries
Accuracy in Land registry using Blockchain Technology
Unarguably, when it calls for land registry, documentations are either lacking, inaccurate or been tampered with, in some parts of Africa. These most times end up in causing land disputes which are commonly seen in Africa today.
With the potential of Blockchain Technology, these records cannot be deleted, and will definitely address the problem of land disputes in Africa.
African countries adopting Blockchain technology
It was reported lately that, the Rwandan government has partnered the Cybersecurity company WISeKey to Digitize the Rwanda land registry using Blockchain Technology.
Computer Programming in Africa
Going with the number of IT software, Apps, Games, and problem that needs Programming attention, the world is in a deep scarcity of software developers.
However today, a good number of Africa's growing young population is headed towards the programming sector of technology, and training software developers in Africa will go along way to increase the numbers of developers thereby encouraging innovations that can solve the world's problem.
African countries adopting computer programming
In Nigeria, a startup company dubbed Andela is training and hiring developers out to global tech companies. The main goal is to empower people with practical skills and use the money they make for their education.
Digitized Payment System
Over the years, it has been a major challenge for Africans to swiftly send or receive the money within the country. Many of them do not even have bank accounts and Mobile money has always been a tug of war to substitute cash.
Currently, Africa is a global leader in mobile money with over 100 million people having mobile money accounts, according to McKinsey research.
However, the problem has always been the numerous different systems that do not work with each other, so lots of people in Africa cannot easily pay for products online.
African countries adopting the digitized payment system
A new innovation called Flutterwave, announced it processed about $444m transactions within three months within Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya
Flutterwave makes it easier for banking institutions and businesses to process payments across Africa. It allows customers to purchase online products with local currencies and allows the Africans to send money from the US to a mobile money wallet.
Deliveries made with Drone
It is now seen that the world is racing for commercial drones that will deliver small packages.
Not to be left out, some parts of Africa are welcoming drones on this use case and many others. More credits to the fact that rural roads and vast amounts of land make some part of Africa perfect for developing delivery drones.
African countries adopting Drones
Rwanda has shown much interest in welcoming drones, as the Zipline world's first drone port was opened in Rwanda and will be expanding to Tanzania.
Zipline is a logistics company that runs drones that can be used to deliver packages.
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