Author: Smart Megwai

Smart is a technology journalist covering innovation, digital culture, and the business of emerging tech. His reporting for Innovation Village explores how technology shapes everyday life in Africa and beyond.

The edtech sector has had a major upswing since 2016. Since e-learning became more widely accepted, educators and administrators have been able to streamline their daily processes by using more effective learning technologies. Also, schools around the world were compelled to go online for long periods of time due to…

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LG has revealed its first gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Max-Q GPU and Intel’s 11-generation Core processors. This is before CES 2022 Teaser, which is on January 4th.  In recent years, the margins on regular PCs have been getting smaller and smaller. Laptop makers have turned to making gaming…

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Three years since it was launched, Kenya’s top telecom Safaricom Plc’s Fuliza mobile overdraft service is challenging the country’s popular loan apps. Through the app, users can acquire risky loans by overdrawing on M-Pesa, a money wallet, which allows its users to pay bills, transfer, receive, and withdraw money using…

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