SA software helps manage food, voucher deployment

GreenFingers Mobile (GFM) has repurposed its agritech software, as a free service, to support non-profits and community-based organisations to digitally manage and fund food parcel and voucher delivery to their beneficiaries. Funders can use the platform, and its data...

IBM launches free learning and skills platform

At its Think Digital conference this week, IBM announced the launch of Open P-TECH, a free digital education platform focused on workplace learning and digital skills. The platform, building on the industry leading P-TECH program, equips 14-20-year old learners and...
The true extent of Antarctic ice sheet loss

The true extent of Antarctic ice sheet loss

Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years. The results provide insights into how...

SMEs’ pain continues in level-4 lockdown

The deep challenges facing small businesses are expected to worsen until lockdown reaches level-2 and level-1, when most small businesses will get back to some form of normality. A survey by the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) canvassed thousands of small...

Teraco builds second Cape Town data centre facility

Teraco has confirmed the construction of Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), a new 30MW data centre facility. This follows the company’s recent 60MW expansion announcement of its Johannesburg data centre campus in Isando and makes the Cape Town facility the second-largest...

Realtime data helps guide Africa’s pandemic response

Member states across Africa responded quickly to Covid-19 with public health and social measures (PHSM), including curfews and lockdowns, as well as training in laboratory diagnostics, surveillance, risk communication, infection prevention and control, and case...