Entrepreneurship

Sara Menker Among America’s Greatest Disruptors: Planet Protectors

AI and Big Data to Help Feed the World SARA MENKER — FOUNDER, CEO, GRO INTELLIGENCEBEST OF NEWSWEEK VIA EMAIL  By 2050, the United Nations says, we’re going to need 70 percent more food to feed the nine billion people living on Earth. Global climate change threatens to upend their lives—worsening storms, droughts, heat waves and

December 15, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Ethiopian War

Meta: Concerns rising as Facebook becomes a tool for spreading violence in Ethiopia

The Oversight Board, a group Facebook created to review its policy decisions,weighed in on a case of misinformation in war-torn Ethiopia Tuesday, warning the company about the risks of allowing hate speech and unverified information to spread freely in conflict zones. The Oversight Board reviewed a post in Amharic from an Ethiopia-based Facebook user that claimed

December 15, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Business

A step forward for electric mobility initiative towards policymaking

The Ministry of Transport and Logistics (MoTL), in collaboration with the GGGI Ethiopia Office, organized a policy dialogue concerning e-mobility initiatives. The discussion consisted of government ministries, the private sector, and partner organizations. The objective of the policy dialogue was to create a gateway for improved networking, experience sharing among key stakeholders. Discuss key issues

December 15, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Business

Nigeria’s Paga plans Ethiopia and crypto expansions in 2022

Nigerian payment platform Paga plans to press ahead with plans to expand in Ethiopia in 2022, and is also considering developing a crypto-currency product in Africa outside Nigeria, CEO Tayo Oviosu announced. The company has a license to operate in Ethiopia. As yet there is no date to start operations there, but Oviosu hopes it

December 10, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Feature

Blockchain: Why identity based project in Ethiopia should worry us

Ethiopia has been facing an ongoing war with its northern Tigray region  counting a year now. With the ongoing conflict leaving the nation high and dry with a brink of famine and genocide. At the same time, we are beginning to recognize the role that technology companies and platforms can play in exacerbating such crises.

December 8, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Entrepreneurship

Pariti has raised $2.85 million seed fund

Pariti was founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele in 2019. This past year, CEO Yacob Berhane said the company has grown 795% and attributed this growth to the pandemic and how the African tech ecosystem has hit an inflection point, minting half a dozen unicorns within this period. Pariti is a platform that empowers

December 6, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Africa News

Twitter Failed African Countries

IN NOVEMBER 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey tweeted from the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that he would be moving to “Africa” for up to six months in 2020. His high-profile monthlong tour of the continent, where he visited Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Ethiopia, had come to an end, and the billionaire was feeling wistful. “Africa

December 3, 2021 • By Addis Insight

Feature

Three Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs that are changing the Dynamics of AI Design

Arize AI is a start-up with a dynamic founding team, Tsion Behailu, Aparna Dhinakaran, and Manisha Sharma  (along with five others, all over 30). The startup, which enables customers to monitor the performance of AI models using software that looks for things such as unforeseen biases in algorithms, has $24.5 million in funding from Battery

December 2, 2021 • By Addis Insight