Green Tech

VENTURES AFRICA- South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has announced that a zero emission electric vehicles (ZEEV) will soon be introduced. The programme that will birth the ZEE vehicles into the South African automobile market will be officially launched on Feb 26 by South Africa Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa. According [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, has initiated a waste-to-energy project in response to the prevalent power outage in the state, using as sources, domestic wastes that have long been problems cleaning up. “We have waste to energy where we commission electricity from our wastes at one of our markets, Ikosi market,” Mr Ola [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – South Africa, Africa largest economy, has become the world leader in solar power generation following Queensland’s withdrawal of a $75 million funding from Australia’s Western Downs facility. Australia has been crowing about becoming the global leader after a promise was made to disburse $1.2 billion on the Western Downs facility but the deal [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Due to its water, energy and emissions efficiency, the Vodafone Site Solution Innovation Centre (SSIC) has been honoured as the greenest building in Africa by the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) at the GBCSA Convention and Exhibition on Wednesday. The building which was awarded the winner of the category Highest Scoring [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In order to develop the potential of Nigeria’s ICT sector, the country is establishing a venture capital worth $15 million, the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson announced in Abuja. Nigeria’s budding ICT innovators and entrepreneurs have welcomed the development with much cheer, stating that it is a step in the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – A company providing technical farming solutions is looking for a local partner to run its network in Kenya, bidding to prove that technology can be easily applied to make life easier for East African farmers. Pessl Instruments provides technological monitoring systems to agriculture and already has the capabilities in Kenya to provide [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Crowdfunding is the way forward for Africa technology start-ups who are having difficulty finding cash to get their businesses off the ground, according to Munya Chiura, Head of Africa Operations at Grow VC International Ltd. Grow VC is a global, community-based platform for entrepreneurs and investors, which provides visibility to idea in [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Entries are now open for the 2013 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), this was announced on Wednesday by the organizers – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) on Wednesday. According to the organizers, the prize is meant to support Africans’ efforts to develop new products, [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The Savannah Fund, a seed capital fund specializing in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups, ranging from $25,000-$500,000, is poised for a launch into the Sub-Saharan Africa market today. According to a statement on its website, the Fund, which focuses on web and mobile-based startups, aims to bridge the [...]