Crowdsourcing gets Moscow citizens involved

The E-Home crowdsourcing initiative, which calls on citizens to make suggestions on how apartment living can  be managed by residents by means of digital technologies, is implementing 342 ideas across Moscow based on citizens’ recommendations. Thanks to the...

PE graduates upgrade Ekurhuleni valuation roll

Skills and software from Port Elizabeth are helping the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality on the Gauteng East Rand to update the valuation roll of around 700 000 properties. A team of 25 geographic information system (GIS) and geography graduates mainly from the...

DCDT, Huawei partner on women’s skills

Huawei South Africa has partnered with the Department of Communication and Digital Technologies to deliver a tailor made 5G course for the department’s women staff. The training is an extension of the DCDT’s Women’s Month initiative that aims to...

Abu Dhabi government enhances digital services

Abu Dhabi Smart Solutions and Services Authority (ADSSSA) has announced a collaboration which will see ADSSSA leverage a range of VMware solutions. This includes digital solutions to support Abu Dhabi’s unified government services platform, TAMM, and provide the...

A new way to pay municipal taxes

Digital Afrique Telecom (DAT) has launched Tax Collect, an interoperable platform for collecting municipal taxes. The multi-channel payment gateway allows taxpaying customers to pay their taxes via an EPT (electronic payment terminal), smartphone, standard mobile...

Ivorian government, Visa to digitise payments

The Ivorian government, represented by the Minister of Finance and Economy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Visa, a leader in payments, to digitise government services and ensure financial services are accessible to more Ivorians. Adama Koné, the...