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…
Empowering Smart Grids through ICT
Electric power companies around the world are looking to improve quality and efficiency by deploying data centres and reconstructing management platforms • Recently held online, the Seventh Huawei Global Power Summit themed "Bits Drive Watts,…
Children’s growing online activity can cause lots of…
Under suspicion: 25% of Nigerian parents find something in their child's social media account potentially dangerous • 34% state their child has seen or listened to something that seemed suspicious to them, be that videos…
New Global Independent ‘Oversight Board’ for Facebook and…
Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon, Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch's Global Alliances and Partnerships program from Kenya, and…
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,…