The Airtel Africa Foundation (AAF), the philanthropic arm of Airtel Africa plc, has released its inaugural annual report, highlighting its impact across the continent during its first full year of operations. According to the report, the Foundation committed $6.2 million to programmes under its Financial Inclusion, Education, Environmental Sustainability and Digital Inclusion (FEED) strategy, with…
Dr Mashilo Boloka, founder and CEO of OS Lab. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) South African digital safety organisation Online Safety Lab (OS Lab) has partnered with US-based ChildSafe.dev to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered child safeguarding platform across schools and homes. According to a statement, the partnership will see the deployment of RoseShield, a system-level…
Zila Tech, a Digicloud Africa and Google partner in Kenya, is driving a new approach to education across the country with Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks. Phelomena Siokan, customer success engineer at Zila Tech, says the company started introducing Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks into Kenyan schools about two years ago, and has…
A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe.
The London School of Innovation became the first UK institution to receive regulatory approval for AI-taught master’s degrees in March. Tuition costs between £9 000 and £11 000 for a one-year online programme delivered primarily through AI avatars running Socratic dialogues. Enrolments start in June. The relevant question for a tech-industry reader is which version of AI-in-education…
Africa’s medical education leaders have declared a decisive shift from “training for certification to training for competence”, as the continent confronts a projected shortfall of 6.1 million health workers by 2030. The declaration came at the 2026 Medical Education Conference of the Association of Medical Schools in Africa (AMASA), held recently in Lagos, in partnership…
Government officials and Vuma executives with communications minister Solly Malatsi. South African fibre network operator Vuma has connected 1 000 schools across South Africa to date, extending broadband access to an estimated 860 000 learners and 40 000 teachers. The milestone was commemorated at Molamo Primary School in Limpopo this week, where government officials, educators…
Brainwave Africa on Saturday hosted a community dialogue in Kampala, bringing together teachers, parents, and students to discuss the future of digital learning in Uganda. The event, held in Bugolobi, also marked the official launch of the Brainwave Africa digital learning platform, a home-grown solution aimed at improving access to quality education. Speaking at the…
Newly filed internal documents show how Google viewed its work with schools as a way of turning children into lifelong customers — while the company simultaneously acknowledged research suggesting that YouTube, one of Google’s main platforms, can be unsafe and distracting. In a 2018 presentation, one slide noted that the public sees YouTube as problematic…
MTN South Africa’s foundation will continue to provide digital devices to selected schools across the country as part of the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) Back-to-School Campaign. These devices are allocated to schools as a support system to enable access to e-learning tools and resources, ensuring that learners benefit from digital education. Opening the door…
