Research

Given Kenya's new personal data protection law, researchers are now confined to the collection of specific information only directly from individuals.

Scientists around Africa are working at the cutting edge of research and their work is relevant beyond the continent.

Agriculture trails other research areas when it comes to open data. The lack of open data threatens progress in fighting hunger as well as preventing commercial enterprises from developing agricultural solutions.

Africa bears a disproportionately high burden of globally significant diseases. But the continent has lagged in scientific knowledge production to address its health challenges.

We need to make an intentional effort to digitize Africa. Not only to help with better data for making policy decisions, but for improving lives too.

A new innovative technology that is based on recent advances in MRI allows for taking many snapshots of an object that repeatedly moves, such as the beating heart or moving eye.

A new center for research in Information and Communication Technologies has been unveiled in Cameroon.