“We’re both passionate about technology and storytelling and want to instil that passion in other kids,” says Fundanii co-founder Sinovuyo Apleni FULL STORY >

Leading coding school WeThinkCode_ and female entrepreneur network OYA Venture are bringing the world’s largest startup competition, focusing on women and technology, to South Africa. FULL STORY >

GirlCode, a social enterprise that aims to empower young girls and women through technology, will be hosting its fifth annual GirlCodeHack from 3 – 5 August 2018. FULL STORY >

Well that’s disappointing. Yesterday we reported that a new Crocodile Dundee movie has released its first few teasers, with Danny McBride starring as Dundee’s son going to Australia to help find his father. FULL STORY >

Social enterprise GirlCode aims to impact 10 million females across Africa by 2030, through strategic partnerships, training initiatives, and mentorship and networking programmes FULL STORY >

SAP announces their Africa Code Week 2017 results, which positively empowered 1.3 million youth in just seven days in October. The continent-wide skills development initiative is on track to achieve target of 5 million youth... FULL STORY >

The Global Transparency Initiative is part of Kaspersky Lab’s aim in assuring the integrity and trustworthiness of its products in service of its corporate mission: protecting customers from cyberthreats. FULL STORY >

At about R350 the iFrogz Coda wireless headphones performs as it should, but comfort is an issue. FULL STORY >

Building a chatbot is the easy part, says Kriti Sharma, VP of Bots and AI at Sage. In order to ensure that these products are safe and ethical, Sharma details five principles called the “Ethics of Code.” FULL STORY >

Google has announced its support for a Digital Journalism initiative that will see 6000 African journalists trained in data journalism skills by the end of February 2018 FULL STORY >

University students tour the African continent and teach kids to code to celebrate 100 years of Finland. FULL STORY >

Entries for the sixth annual Entelect Challenge, which has become known as one of the premium coding competitions among the software development community, are now open. FULL STORY >

GirlCode has announced that it will introduce a GirlCode Hackathon Workshop Series for 2017. FULL STORY >

In its first year of existence, Rand Merchant Investment’s (RMI) club for fintech startup entrepreneurs, AlphaCode, has clocked up over a thousand members. FULL STORY >

Visa today announced that it is bringing its mobile payments solution, mVisa, to Nigeria. FULL STORY >