Mobile money hit a new milestone last year as the value of transactions processed globally surpassed $1 trillion for the first time, according to a report released this week by the GSM Association, which tracks data in the mobile telecommunications industry. A rise in merchant...

Reluctant regulators Who should police the web? Politicians should not offload the responsibility onto others? SHOULD VIDEO websites have to review content before they publish it? Where does the boundary lie between hate speech and incitement to violence? Is pornography created by...

A definition of DDD as a software design discipline Domain-Driven Design is a software design discipline centred on the principles that: Software for a complex domain requires all designers (engineers, testers, analysts, …) to have a deep, shared understanding of the domain, guided...

The first-ever three years National Digital Payments Strategy (NDPS) of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) hints that it would apply incentives and discouraging instruments like tax incentives and cash handling fees to attain the goal of the NDPS. The strategy that officially...

Social media creates visibility, but a professional website builds relationships—and sales. If you’re using social media to demonstrate expertise and encourage an audience to engage with your business, you’re off to a great start. Now, try complementing this effort with a website, so...

A new study finds that incumbent parties lose votes after their citizens get online THE EARLY days of the internet were full of predictions about access to information unleashing a wave of democratisation. More recently, views on the internet’s impact have soured, as states use it to...

When you need to give someone your location, you usually point them to an address. Here in Addis, you often point them to an intersection instead. But sometimes an address is just difficult to find — or you don’t have one at all. For those purposes, Google introduced Plus codes five...