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…
54gene Laboratory to conduct 1,000 COVID-19 test per…
54Gene is accredited by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), and has already set up labs in Lagos and in Ogun States • The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), a philanthropic endeavor of Aliko Dangote, has…
The lockdown is putting a renewed focus on…
Keep your smartphone Corona-free: Kaspersky shares top tips • With no reliable data for COVID-19 available yet, it is always best to be extra cautious The lockdown that countries all over the world are currently…
Paris Peace Forum 2019
The Paris Peace Forum is back for a second edition, which will be held from 11 to 13 November 2019, at the Grande Halle in La Villette. This year again, the event will bring together a…
Growth in Cryptocurrency transactions calls for stronger security…
Paxful now has over 3 million wallets and processes over 50,000 trades a day globally • This leading peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace and digital wallet provider is shining the spotlight on the escalating need for…
Temenos T24 Transact at work in Consolidated Bank…
Temenos AG, the banking software company, today announced that Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited (CBG) has gone live with Temenos T24 Transact, the next generation in core banking, to power its operations for retail and corporate…
Russian software package MyOffice soon in the Democratic…
At the Russia-Africa forum being held in Sochi (October 23–24, 2019) a cooperation and partnership agreement has been signed between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Russian company New Cloud…
KnowBe4 Africa goes continental with Cyber Security Africa
KnowBe4 Africa aims to make access to its cybersecurity awareness training platform easier for African businesses through CS Africa KnowBe4 Africa is proud to announce that we are partnering with Cyber Security Africa as our…
Fellowship for Young African Agribusiness Innovators
The World Food Prize Foundation and the newly launched World Hunger Fighters Foundation are partnering to provide year-long fellowships for young African food innovators and entrepreneurs The World Hunger Fighters Foundation will award annual Borlaug-Adesina…
Thales to support Ghana’s Financial Inclusion Drive
Thales, in partnership with Paycode, supports Ghana in this drive via a single card with two applications (EMV & Biometric) • Ghana continues to roll out initiatives that provide Ghanaians with secure and convenient digital…
Growth in Fintech Drives Growth in Cyberattacks
Africa’s Fintech ecosystem has surged 60% in the last two years and the continent’s Fintech firms have grown to 491 from 301 in 2017, with $132.8 million raised in 2018 • last year the sector…
Fighting fraud from the top
By Ayanda Kotobe, Finance Director at RS Components Why do we stop at traffic lights? It’s not because we are naturally attuned to seeing red as the order to stop. If that were the case,…
Evolución del cibercrimen en el primer semestre
S21sec ha publicado un informe que analiza la evolución del cibercrimen durante la primera mitad del año en curso. Bajo el título “Threat Landscape Report”, el informe pone de manifiesto el creciente enfoque criminal en…
Recomendaciones para unas vacaciones seguras en las empresas
S21sec, la mayor empresa de servicios de ciberseguridad Pure Player de la Península Ibérica, advierte de la necesidad de que las empresas y sus empleados no descuiden su seguridad durante las vacaciones de verano, un…
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…