Leia Baez kick-started the show motivating us to keep pushing through dark phases in our lives. It’s been a busy week for the digital world as Top Tech stories see us profiling Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub and providing grants to 3 South African NPO’s. We also cover the exciting partnership between Nigeria’s First Bank and WorldRemit that provides digital transfer services to its customers. Our Top 10 feature ends of the show by profiling the high valued brands in the global marketplace with tech companies dominating the list.

Is Africa taking Cyber Security seriously?
Soji Akinlabi and Tumediso Lobelo look into the world of cybersecurity and how it impacts Africa. As the least connected continent, we are vulnerable to cyber-crime. We discuss interesting developments in Kenya and talk about the cost of cybercrime globally.

Kenya has become the latest Africa country to sign into law the framework of cybersecurity and digital safety; on May 16, President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Bill 2018 that criminalizes abuse of persons on social media, removing the legal lacuna that existed. The new bill spells out stiff punishment to cybercriminals –provides for timely and effective detection, prohibition, prevention, response, investigation, and prosecution of computer and cybercrimes. This includes search and seizure of stored computer data, a record of and access to seized data, production order for data, expedited preservation, partial disclosure, real-time collection and interception of data.
Some analysts criticized the new act while some commend the move. Tope Ogundipe, Director of Programs at Digital Rights NGO Paradigm Initiative warns that while the passing of laws tackling cybercrime should be encouraged across the African continent, these laws should not be used to limit important freedoms.
Mucheru, Cabinet Secretary in the Information, Communication and Technology Ministry described the law as a necessary intervention ahead of the debates by parliamentarians and consideration by President Kenyatta, "Because cybersecurity criminal were becoming sophisticated and the government is sensitizing security and judiciary personnel on collection and interpretation of cybersecurity evidence for credible trial of suspects."

The tech war between the US & China continues and talking robotics/drones with Pragmatic Master

Les Brown gets us going with his inspiring story reminding us to never give up by staying hungry! In Top Tech News, MasterCard in partnership with Unilever giving small businesses the ability to trade and Airbnb is taking over Africa showing tremendous growth with over 100 000 listings. We profile Monde Mkhalali from Pragmatic Master, an innovative tech start-up that uses robotics and drones to increase business efficiencies.

Africa is on the move…young people are harnessing technology,” - Barack Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nairobi, Kenya 2015.
The digital economy in Africa started in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 when Mark Shuttleworth built Thawte, a leading certificate authority, and sold it to Verisign when Vodacom championed prepaid airtime. the wave then moved to Ghana in 2001, when, together with Mark Davies and others, BusyInternet was built.
Nigeria currently enjoys some of the most interesting developments in product development. According to a report by GSMA Intelligence 2017, Nigerians boast up to 86 million unique mobile subscribers, making it a technology developer's playground.
According to estimates released at the Google For Nigeria conference last week, by the year 2034 Africa is expected to have the world's largest working-age population of 1.1 billion -- yet only 3 to 4 million jobs are created annually.
African web users are already taking the first step in making moves in the digital economy.

Our technology update focuses on exposing our top tech stories, we start off with the Virgin Money Insurance platform that cuts out call center agents from the sales process. Samsung innovates in the education space, Facebook’s market share plunges and the City of Atlanta is hacked! On Start-Up Corner, we profile Fruvas, which is a fresh produce delivery company that aims to be a grocery retail company.

On this show we chat about cybersecurity, tech companies putting Africa on the global map and how start-ups are disrupting by developing solutions that operate outside of the Internet. We had our Digital Expert Seshan Patadamai provide insight into the “Digital Transformation” hype which seems to be the focus for private and public sector entities globally.