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…
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…
SIM Boxing: a threat for business and security
In 2016, it was estimated that telecom companies in Uganda on annual basis were losing about $60m due to illegal redirection of international calls traffic • The amount in part led to revenue from voice…
Tax reform, digitisation key to financing development
Africa must digitise its economies, broaden its tax base, prevent further deterioration of fiscal and debt positions, and aim for double-digit growth to achieve the UN 2030 global goals (SDGs), and the AU Agenda 2063 according to the 2019…
Unitel to chair the GSMA Association Africa Fraud…
Unitel was elected to chair the GSMA Association Africa Fraud and Security Group (AFASG), a specific working group dedicated to dealing with critical fraud and security issues for the telecommunications industry in Africa. The mandate…
Mobile malware: Nigeria climbs to third in 2018
Kaspersky Lab researchers have seen the number of attacks using malicious mobile software nearly double in just a year. In 2018 there were 116.5 million attacks, compared to 66.4 million in 2017, with a significant…