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South Africa to get first Digital Economy Summit in June
On Thursday, 11 April 2019, the Minister of Telecommunications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams officially launched the 4IRSA Partnership and unveiled its plans towards the country’s first Digital Economy Summit at a media briefing. The summit is scheduled to be held on 27-28…
Turning urban data into dynamic visualisation with FABRIC
Siemens launched an extraordinary data visualization project called FABRIC at the German Africa Business Summit in Accra, demonstrating how crucial data is in transforming Africa’s urban centres into smart cities of the future. This interactive initiative previously launched in South…
Choosing the right business management system could be tricky
Selecting a business management (ERP) system is a decision that will affect any business for many years. Most products offer the same or similar features and it could be extremely confusing to decide what features are important or not. This…
Rwanda’s President Kagame, open to drive digitisation in Africa
Rwandan President, Paul Kagame and Globacom’s Executive Vice Chairman, Mrs Bella Disu, on Monday, March 25 began discussions on the use of digital technology to help the march towards economic prosperity in Africa. The two leaders held a private meeting…
Tax reform, digitisation key to financing development
Africa must digitise its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further deterioration of fiscal and debt positions, and aim for double-digit growth to achieve the UN 2030 global goals (SDGs), and the AU Agenda 2063 according to the 2019 Economic…
Digital Intelligence launches global standard for digital literacy
The Coalition for Digital Intelligence (CDI), a platform created in association with the World Economic Forum (Forum) and formed jointly by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), IEEE Standards Association (IEEE), and DQ Institute, has today launched the…
F5 acquires NGINX to bridge NetOps and DevOps
F5 Networks and NGINX have announced an agreement under which F5 will acquire all issued and outstanding shares of privately held NGINX for a total enterprise value of approximately $670 million, subject to certain adjustments. “F5’s acquisition of NGINX strengthens…
Drawing from China’s digital landscape for Africa’s tech-enabled future
China is rapidly becoming a leading designer of digital products, services, and business models, a seismic shift in focus that’s being enabled by its world-class communications infrastructure and the sheer numbers of its connected consumers. That’s according to Mark Joseph,…
Aurecon chooses Orange Business Services as its IT services partner
Global engineering and infrastructure advisory company Aurecon has selected Orange Business Services, a global technology integrator, to manage its global communications infrastructure, including SD-WAN and cybersecurity services, across 60 sites in more than twenty countries. The future-proof Flexible SD-WAN service…
Digital transformation demands a new approach to change management
Top implementers of digital transformation projects are in the minority, according to a global study entitled ‘How the implementation of organisational change is evolving’ conducted by Mckinsey. It was revealed that the ability to successfully manage change has declined since…
Digital business requires integrated risk management
In 2019, organisational risks are turning into significant operational surprises, and the frequency will only increase as digital business requirements grow. There is no longer room for siloed risk management programs. Instead, security leaders must focus on building integrated risk…
Top digital challenges for service leaders in 2019
Growing the business will be the top objective in 2019, along with improving operational excellence, according to customer service and support leaders responding to the Gartner 2019 Agenda Poll. “Service centres are shifting their focus to become differentiators for the…
UCSimple service launches in South Africa
SoftwareOne has launched the UCSimple unified communications (UC) managed service in South Africa, the UK, and Ireland. UCSimple is designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses by providing services like consulting, implementation and managed services with a stronger focus on cost transparency…
Look to Wi-Fi for Digital Transformation in Retail
CIOs in the retail sector are increasingly looking to location analytics provided by sophisticated Wi-Fi marketing solutions to address digital transformation. This is the view of Wade Gomes, Sales Director of Corr-Serve, a local value-added distributor that represents Cloud4Wi in…
Ericsson lays out vision for cellular IoT
Ericsson has on Thursday, 31 January 2019, unveiled the next steps in the evolution of cellular IoT and launched new solutions that will enable service providers to address a larger part of the IoT market with diverse use cases across…
Gartner says 37 percent of organisations have implemented AI
The number of organisations implementing artificial intelligence (AI) grew 270 per cent in the past four years and tripled in the past year, according to the Gartner, Inc. 2019 CIO Survey. Results showed that organisations across all industries use AI…
