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Gemalto pilots blockchain technology to put users in control of their Digital ID
Who are you, and can you prove it? The new Gemalto Trust ID Network enables users to give digital service providers fully verified and secured answers to these simple yet critical questions. By creating and managing their own ‘Self-Sovereign’ Digital…
Opening access to South Africa’s life insurance industry through technology
Despite the existence of top-class local life insurance offerings, South African families remain grossly underinsured. The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) estimates that the country’s 14 million income earners face a combined death and disability insurance shortfall…
CIOs in Africa play a central role in defining new business models
Digital business is maturing and forcing organisations to change their business models and look to IT to help. Half of the CIOs in Africa said their organisation has changed or is in the process of changing their business models, and…
Consumer buy-in vital to ensuring peaceful transition into the digital age
It’s no secret that the Fourth Industrial Revolution has officially begun. The era of intersection between people and machines is among us, with more industries embracing the new technologies that are available. Historically, the term ‘revolution’ was often associated with…
The future of work in a digital world
The digital age, and the new technologies it’s brought with it – blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, augmented reality and virtual reality – is seen by many as a threat to our way of life as we know it. What…
The time has come for digital transformation
Using technology to drive business transformation is hardly a new thing. In fact, reducing paper and automating processes are goals many organisations share. Yet, change has been slow in coming with some decision-makers even resisting digitalisation. This needs to change…
Empowering businesses to transform digitally
The world has gone digital is a term we hear far too often nowadays, but it’s not exactly true. It is true that the world is transforming, but there is an increasing distinction between those who are leading the change…
Mitigate WAN complexity with SD Branch
Technology has entrenched itself into the way we do business, becoming the fundamental foundation of virtually any organisation. For IT departments, this has created incredible complexity as teams need to keep their fingers on the pulse of every aspect of…
IT News Africa: Top stories of the week
It’s been another insightful week in the world of technology. The ITU Telecom World 2018 kicked off and hosted influential figures from government and industry to connect with tech SMEs and entrepreneurs. Apple also had their annual hardware event where…
Mastercard introduces Track to connect buyers and suppliers with networks
Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Track in collaboration with Microsoft. Track is a unique global trade platform that will simplify and enhance how companies around the world do business with each other. While parts of the B2B process have been digitized,…
Application models are critical to business growth
For millennia, the world economy grew incrementally and slowly based on population growth and increasing trade across distances. Conversion of raw materials to finished goods was achieved through manual labour and processes – often through trial and error that could…
A Blueprint for Africa’s future cities
Firmly established as Africa’s most progressive business orientated jurisdiction, Mauritius’ forward-thinking and nimble policies have resulted in the island nation riding the wave to the centre of investment and development in Africa. While its business-friendly framework and investment orientated tax…
South Africa needs a grounded approach for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
South Africa needs to whittle the discussion down to an understanding on the one hand of what is happening in technological changes and relate that to the structure of the South African economy The Industrial Development Advisor at the Department…
Nerd Academy offers tech nerds for hire at $10 per hour
Nerd Academy, a free digital skills training programme aimed at alleviating poverty by assisting with skills development and helping the unemployed find work, is offering nerds for hire at $10 per hour for any basic digital job. This includes admin…
Veeam enables ContinuitySA to deliver Hyper-Availability across Africa
Veeam Software, the leader in Intelligent Data Management for the Hyper‑Available Enterprise™, today announced that ContinuitySA, an African provider of business continuity management services to public and private sector organisations, has selected Veeam Availability Suite to help deliver dependable disaster…
APC by Schneider Electric enters new African market
APC by Schneider Electric, industry players in energy management and automation, have recently partnered with Red Dot Distribution as the official distributor of all APC products in Zambia. Red Dot Distribution, East Africa’s leading IT distribution company and an existing…
