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#AfricaMonth launches on BizWith Africa Day falling on 25 May 2018, it's #AfricaMonth on Bizcommunity.com and Bizcommunity.Africa. This is Africa's time and Bizcommunity is telling the positive news story of Africa: that of economic growth, global multinational investment, business expansion and a digital revolution that is transforming the continent. Euromonitor pegged "Africa Rising" as a global megatrend for 2018 - but here, on the continent, we've been talking about Africa Rising for a good few years now: we have a rising, aspirant middle class in Africa with monthly spending power of R1.3 trillion; the youngest population in the world which will reach 500 million under 25 years by 2030 to provide a ready workforce; a mobile-first society that has embraced mobile financial, entertainment and communications innovations more than any other continent; and boasts one of the most entrepreneurial cultures, with 442 technology hubs across Africa incubating startups and nurturing entrepreneurs. My favourite stat is that six of the 10 fastest growing economies of the world in 2018 are in Africa, namely, Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Senegal and Tanzania. And let's not forget the political and economic transformation underway in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Angola, which will set them on the road to economic recovery too. This is why Bizcommunity.com, South Africa's largest B2B publisher, decided to focus on expanding its industry news into Africa on all the industry sectors it covers in 2017, securing the .Africa domain: Agriculture, Horticulture & Forestry; Automotive; Construction & Engineering, CSI & Sustainability; Education & Training; Energy & Mining; Finance & Insurance; Healthcare, Human Resources & Recruitment; IT & Telecommunications; Legal; Lifestyle; Logistics & Transport; Media & Marketing; Retail; Property & Real Estate; Tourism, Travel & Hospitality. Have a great week! Louise Marsland
Africa Editor: Bizcommunity.comComment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | |  | Top stories |
Louise Marsland Euromonitor International has just released a Shifting Market Frontiers Megatrend forecast in which it pegs 'Africa Rising' as a megatrend...read |
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Louise Marsland Mbithi Masya, film director at Fat Rain Films, Kenya, and a Ciclope Africa judge, talks about what Africa can bring to the international stage...read | 
Sherry Zameer Mobile operators are becoming an important provider of, and platform for, a growing range of services. As a result, the ability to verify customer identity is becoming a business imperative for mobile operators...read |
| |  | SES has expanded its reach in Ghana to four million television homes... read | |  | Funding available to science journalists in Africa to build capacity and produce science stories aimed at local or global markets... read | |  | James Maposa It's hard for brands to rely on their legacy because modern-day consumers are more open to trying new things. They have access to more information and this has led them to being more empowered and taking on more risks like trying new products... read | |  | Tom Jackson Nigerian startup TradeDepot, an innovative SaaS platform for FMCG distribution in Africa, has secured a $3m Series A round led by Partech Ventures' recently launched Africa Fund to expand in Nigeria and launch in other countries... read | |  | Muggie van Staden As with any technological development, views towards open source have evolved. The connected environment of today requires a significant shift in how this is approached... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Facebook Africa and Digify Africa have partnered to launch an online safety programme called Ilizwe Lam, Xhosa for my world... read | |  | A new logo has been released and a special press section has been developed as a resource for the media, as it gets closer to Rugby Africa Gold Cup kick off... read | |  | Applications are now open for the second Deep Learning Indaba which aims to strengthen the foundations of African machine learning and to increase the participation of African researchers in the field... read | |  | Jared Molko It's been six months since I left my comfy job at a giant, well-known tech company and I've had a decent amount of time to reflect. It was an experience for which I will always be grateful... read | |  | Catherine Burton, Harsh Sarda and Zeenat Ismail Issued By Ipsos Why have some companies succeeded and others failed in Africa? International brands have extended their business models into Africa, and set up shop... read | |  | Yugashnee Naicker As the economy continues to shift from being resource-based, knowledge industries such as tourism will become more sophisticated and important and while business travel makes up just a quarter of the overall tourism pie, its potential extends far beyond its current nominal contribution... read | |  | GE is supporting Ghana's digitisation drive to digitise the economy and move Ghana beyond aid dependence... read | |  | Issued By Alliance Media Alliance Media in partnership with Coca-Cola, has created an iconic and innovative OOH billboard
site by projecting onto the well-known Cham Towers building in Kampala, Uganda... read | |  | Peter Pedroncelli Africa is fast becoming a key global tech market, and many of the tech leaders of tomorrow are emerging from the continent with Africa's international ambitions and potential firmly in their grasp... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Following last month's launch of the Amsterdam-based workspace concept, Spaces at Atrium on 5th in Sandton, I interviewed Dutch founder Martijn Roordink to find out what it offers the South African workforce besides a place to plug in your laptop, and for his views on this new way of working... read | |  | Local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stand to benefit from Google implementing "mobile-first indexing"... read | |  | In partnership with Gorilla Doctors, LIA has initiated a global competition that is open to all creatives between the ages of 21 - 30 years... read | |  | Lara-Anne Derbyshire Your company is planning on launching a competitive product offering to new regions that, if successful, is set to shake up the market and monumentally increase your brand awareness and profit margins across the country. The most important thing to plan your go to market strategy? Know thy customer... read | |  | Wynand Smit It's no secret that personalisation is essential in developing a successful customer experience. Central to that is getting to know all you can about your customer and using that information to drive the interaction... read | |  | mSurvey has secured investment to enable the company to continue building out its infrastructure and partnerships, in order to scale and expand into more African countries... read | |  | Voices of young Africans are becoming difficult to ignore. Africa's young people are demanding a seat at the political table and on the transformation train... read | | | |  | Guardian Media Group and D&AD have partnered to establish a new global festival... read | | | |  | Zimbabwe should adopt the South African rand as its official currency on an interim basis as a way of stabilising the economy, Deputy Finance Minister Terrence Mukupe has said... read | |  | Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina Natural resources are often thought of as a curse in developing countries, slowing economic growth rather than driving it... read | |  | A highly advanced robotic visualisation system used to guide the most intricate neurosurgeries is now operational at Netcare Garden City Hospital in Mayfair West, Johannesburg... read | |  | Robin Fredericks Sharing some of his most favourite passions including surfing, balloons and unicorns, Cape Town Tourism CEO, Enver Duminy took us through the destination marketing organisation and its relevance in a digital world during his talk at this year's World Travel Market Africa... read | |  | Laúca Hydropower Plant is about to become the largest hydropower plant in Angola, as the newly commissioned third power generation group brings the current installed power capacity to over 1,000MW... read | |  | IndexBox shares some key findings from its newly released report called World: Parts and accessories of motor vehicles - market report. Analysis and forecast to 2025... read | |  | Apart from the sound investment case for investing in the global agriculture and food value chain, investments in agriculture address a number of critical SDGs by tackling issues such as extreme poverty, food security and lack of job opportunities... read | |  | Africa investor (Ai) recently announced the shortlisted candidates for its 2018 African Infrastructure Projects Developer Awards... read | |  | The impact of the elevated supply growth across the region will likely continue to be felt in 2018, but strong demand fundamentals will improve hotel performance thereafter... read | |  | Jane Mcintosh De Beers has taken another step towards ridding the trade of its "blood diamond" tag with a mobile tracking app for miners in Sierra Leone. While Gemfair may be useful, more needs to be done to ensure safety... read | |  | Nigeria is at last moving out of recession, Ghana's growth continues to be strong, and the smaller countries in the region are picking up as they shake off the lingering effects of the Ebola outbreak in 2013-16.. read | |  | Rebekah Shirley Urban communities often face many challenges in obtaining electricity access... read | |  | Eunice Anyango Owino In the past 15 years the Kenyan government has made great strides in preventing and controlling malaria... read | |  | Gabriella Mulligan Ugandan startup BreastIT has been selected to join the Berlin-based Vodafone Institute's F-Lane Accelerator, one of five ventures chosen from over 180 worldwide applicants... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg Did you know that 98% of your global data travels under the ocean on subsea fibre optic cables, not via satellites? read | | | | Zelda Fitzgerald "By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future." Shirley MacLaine "The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." John Keats "Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer." |
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