Kenya Flying Labs scoops humanitarian award
Developing an aerial surveillance system to detect cholera cases. Using tethered drones to bring cellular connectivity to a refugee camp. In…
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Flying Labs Network turns five
Nine thousand dead. 22,000 injured. Thousands and thousands of homes reduced to rubble; and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. …
Good times for Nigerian drone start-ups
There must be some real good vibes around the Nigerian drone technology landscape right now. On one hand you have AirSmat, a drone softwa…
Nigerian students build agricultural drone
A group of four Nigerian students has come together to build a crop spraying drone that they think will be affordable to farmers across the …
Government role in growth of drone technology
Written by Joe Mariani, Research Manager, Centre for Government Insights at Deloitte; and Peter Liu, Managing Director, Deloitte Today’…
WEF charts roadmap for Unmanned Traffic Management
That drones are here to stay is now fait accompli. Amazing technology entrepreneurs have turned a technology that was a preserve of the m…
Amazon, Google, UPS: Who is winning the drone delivery race?
By Harrison Wolf, Lead, Aerospace and Drones, World Economic Forum While innovative start-ups like Zipline and Wingcopter are leaders in …
SA Drone Council: "Let's make history; lest we be history."
Having promised to hit the ground running at the launch of the Drone Council of South Africa in July, the council says it has already engage…
CTA, Africa Goes Digital win big at WSIS Forum
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) took the big prize again at the World Summit on the Information Society Fo…
The eye in the sky
Drones have changed how we see the world. Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we experience the world - how we decide the even…
DJI's Schulman: Time for drone industry to come together
There is a Zimbabwean adage which goes, one man’s troubles will not stop another from eating. DJI has come to realise the truth of this…
Winners of Zambian drone hackathon announced
Chitula Lukonde, the Information Technology and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at Zambia Flying Labs walked away with the g…