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How Artificial Intelligence is rewriting the BPM rulebook
Artificial intelligence (AI) is creeping into many facets of business: from corporate strategy, to customer service interactions, research and new product development, among other disciplines. However, one of the lesser-known applications for AI is the way that it can entirely…
Top 10 topics to look out for at HISA 2018
With only two weeks to go, the 4th annual Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa is fast approaching. The summit is set to take place on 17-18 October 2018 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, where hundreds of local…
Thoughtonomy, DigiBlu partner to deliver Intelligent Automation SaaS solution
DigiBlu and Thoughtonomy have signed a partnership to deliver the first SaaS based Intelligent Automation solution in Africa. Organisations across Africa are now able to benefit from Thoughtonomy’s Virtual Workforce® platform, along with DigiBlu’s expertise in designing and delivering digital…
AI predicting floods in India
As part of the Google Public Alerts program, Google is helping to keep people safe from floods and similar natural disasters with AI-enabled flood forecasting. Last year, Google launched SOS Alerts on Search and Maps to make emergency information more…
Better life decisions with AI
When you think about artificial intelligence and how it will impact our daily life, what are the images you conjure up? Intelligent robot companions that clean and cook and keep you company? A disembodied voice that controls your car, home,…
Preparing for the Future of Work
Futurists have long envisioned a brighter tomorrow, full of A.I. helpers and automated environments that run on the sound of our voice. Now that we stand on the edge of that reality, it’s time to realize what it requires of…
Microsoft, Google, Amazon join famine prevention initiative
Tech giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled on Sunday, 23 September 2018. Rather than waiting…
Robotics play an active role in 4th Industrial Revolution
Paramount Group, an African-based global defence and aerospace business, proudly announces the launch of an excitingly-new annual robotics competition entitled ‘Parabotics’, a contest (commencing in January, with finals scheduled for December) open to high school pupils, college students and university…
Liquid Telecom partners with Zindi to accelerate Africa’s data science ecosystem
Pan-African telecoms group, Liquid Telecom, has announced a partnership with Zindi to support the rollout of its new data science competition platform across Africa. Zindi was launched last week at the AI Expo Africa in Cape Town, providing a platform…
Machines learning to speak as we do
The fact that machine learning (ML) services are now available through AWS has led to a shift in the capabilities that developers can offer their clients with regards to natural language processing (NLP) and the cloud services they inform. Machine…
New IBM software service addresses need for more transparency in AI decision making
IBM introduced technology that gives businesses new transparency into AI, enabling them to more fully harness its power. The software service, which automatically detects bias and explains how AI makes decisions – as the decisions are being made – runs…
How AI will bring out the best in accountants
Do you remember a time before online and mobile banking? A time when you’d walk into a bank and the manager would greet you by name, ask about your family and what you needed help with? That relationship and personal…
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…
Mike Harris delivers opening keynote at Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2018
The annual Gartner Symposium ITXPO kicked off at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Monday, 17 September 2018. The three-day conference is set to bring Africa’s leading CIOs and senior IT executives together in Cape Town to discuss key…
More governments now benchmark broadband status in their national plans
A new report issued by the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that a growing number of governments now benchmark the status of broadband in their national broadband plans. This year, the report shows for the first time that at…
Artificial intelligence to enhance patient care
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are two of the most talked about technologies today. They are predicted to achieve miraculous things and remarkable shifts in how healthcare is managed and delivered. However, the reality today is not quite the…
