Mar 13, 2023
Kathy Gibson reports – A broad industry initiative, PayShap is South Africa’s first low-value, interbank, realtime digital payments service that will make digital payments easier and more convenient for all South Africans. The new payments platform was developed...
Mar 10, 2023
A new report from Forrester – Generative AI prompts productivity, imagination, and innovation in the enterprise – finds that generative AI can augment and enhance existing business processes in ways that were previously impossible. Forrester defines...
Mar 9, 2023
Quantum computers hold the promise of operating millions of times faster than conventional computers. But to communicate over long distances, quantum computers will need a dedicated quantum communications network. To help form such a network, a device has been...
Mar 8, 2023
Kathy Gibson reports – Just about every organisation in Africa is in desperate need of more tech skills. This is the headline finding from new SAP research, “Africa’s tech skills scarcity revealed”, conducted by VansonBourne. The survey shows...
Mar 7, 2023
Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team including NASA scientists mapped almost 10-billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands in order to assess the amount of carbon stored outside of the continent’s...
Mar 6, 2023
The digital connectivity divide separating the globe’s least developed countries (LDCs) from the world as a whole shows no sign of narrowing. In fact, it is widening on key factors, according to ITU’s Facts and Figures: Focus on Least Developed Countries....
