A new report from Developing Telecoms backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund , UNICEF, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID and mobile phone Association, GSMA, released yesterday has revealed how mobile phones transform emergency response in the developing countries by unlocking untapped reserves of local knowledge, resourcefulness and creativity.

With free online sessions and coding workshops across seventeen African countries, Enterprise application software company, SAP, has announced the start of Africa Code Week, a continent-wide initiative to spread digital literacy and simplify access to coding education for young people.

A Nigerian, Ogbonnaya Bassey has won the young innovators competition in the ITU Telecom World 2015 Young Innovators competition sponsored by Intel.

Global Vice President of Education, Anthony Salcito, will reaffirm Microsoft’s education investments on the continent at the Innovation Africa Summit in Uganda this week. Innovation Africa is the continent’s leading summit for education and innovation and brings together all education players, from schools and civil society to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and education ministers.

European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and social media giant Facebook said Monday they are working jointly to deliver satellite broadband Internet to connectivity-hungry sub-Saharan Africa.