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Africa Data Centres Wins 3 Awards at the 6th Africa Digital Economy Event in Ghana

Africa Data Centres, the only truly pan-African operator of large-scale, vendor- and carrier-neutral data centres, has won three awards at the prestigious Africa Digital Economy Awards (ADEA). Africa Data Centres not only walked away with the Innovative Data Centre Provider...

10 Things to know about mobile payments in Africa

The trend of making payments using mobile wallets installed as applications on smartphones which sometimes makes use of Near Field Communication Technology and generally an internet connection is becoming widespread, and indeed Africa is not left out in the...

Hubs dot Ng launches Emily, an AI assistant

Winner of the 2018 digital face-off by digital Africa: hubs dot Ng, has announced that they have released their in-app assistant; Emily. Emily is an artificial intelligence assistant integrated with the new hubs dot Ng app. Emily delivers a friendly...

The changing African digital insurance market

Even though digital is still to reach widespread adoption in Africa, it presents insurers with exciting new opportunities for business growth. While there is the temptation to believe that Africa is a digitally-led continent, the reality for insurers is quite...

IT needs to transform globally

Technology is driving change at a rapid rate and business leaders, globally and within Africa, are constantly being warned about digital disruption and how technology is changing the world. However, there is an enormous opportunity for organisations that are...

Will Africa be digitally relevant in the next 10 years?

By 2025, jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist. Students graduating in 2016, will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession by 2025. - Front-line military personnel will be replaced with...

SAP Africa unveils strategic partnership for a Digital Africa

SAP Africa has announced its participation in a partnership with the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Titled “Digital Africa”, the project is focused on how new technologies and innovative solutions will determine the future for Africa. The...

Nigeria: Mobile Money failure blamed on banks

Mobile Money which offers users the ability to send and receive funds, and pay for a wide range of goods and services using their mobile phones, hasn't been as successful in Nigeria as it has been in Kenya and...

MTN pilots LTE at AfricaCom

MTN  piloted the first ever Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Cape Town at the 2011 AfricaCom conference. AfricaCom is the continent’s largest annual telecommunications conference, attracting over 5 000 delegates from across the world. The pilot of MTN’s LTE network...

WPP agencies research digital marketing in Africa

KENYA— Digital agency Wunderman is partnering with WPP sister company TNS Research International to help clients understand and maximise digital marketing opportunities in Africa. The two firms will collaborate on a research project looking at how people in East Africa...
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