Despite significant strides in the telecom industry, which have been made in terms of technology and reach, the spread of network connection in rural areas around the world, remain the last frontier for the telecom…
Advertising Week Africa announces shift to 2020
Advertising Week —the world’s largest annual gathering of advertising, creative, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders— has shifted its maiden Africa edition to 2020. Advertising Week Africa will now take place in the first…
APO Group African Women in Media Award
Call for Entries: APO Group African Women in Media Award to Recognise Support of Female Journalists for Women's Entrepreneurship in Africa • A USD 2,500 cash prize, an all-expenses paid trip to a prestigious International…
Tanzania selects HID Global for citizen identification program
Tanzania has selected HID's citizen ID solutions to add e-Visa and e-Permit capabilities to its e-Passport, which HID helped deploy last year as part of the Tanzania e-Immigration program • The new web-based visa and…
How FB is preparing for elections across Africa
Ms. Akua Gyekye, Public Policy Manager, Africa Elections, wants to share an update on their work to reduce the spread of misinformation, protect election integrity and support civic engagement across the continent. Their work across…
CyberXchange: Protecting Communication Infrastructures
In a bid to further the global drive for improved cyber security, CyberXchange Conference (www.CyberXchange.com), West Africa’s premier information security conference held at the Landmark Event Centre, Lekki Lagos Nigeria, from November 2nd through 3rd,…
Fiston Mujila Wins 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
Mujila is the first Francophone writer to win the prestigious Etisalat Prize, the first ever pan-African prize that celebrates debut fiction books by African authors Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila was on Saturday, 19th…
Tecnocom: experiencias digitales cotidianas
El Pago Móvil Universal HCE, herramientas para la auto gestión de las finanzas personales de los clientes, técnicas de contextualización personalizada para incentivar el consumo, y la contratación digital de múltiples servicios financieros y seguros,…
Soluciones de seguridad de WhiteBearSolutions
Itway distribuye las soluciones de seguridad de WhiteBearSolutions El portfolio de la tecnológica española incluye las soluciones WBSVision, para gestión de directorios, autenticación y gestión de identidad y, WBSAirback, que aporta almacenamiento y backup en…
Sensor size key factor in fingerprint system
Major study shows fingerprint system quality drops dramatically when sensor size is reduced below recommended level, says NEXT Biometrics • University of Madrid study proves sensor size key factor in fingerprint system quality NEXT Biometrics…