SA-startup Vollar presents to Stanford forum

Vollar, a new digital currency that enables sustainable and scalable social upliftment that empowers unemployed and informal traders, has been selected to present to the 12th Annual Stanford African Business Forum in Silicon Valley. South African startup Vollar...

Severe weather impacts Openserve’s infrastructure

The current inclement weather has wreaked havoc to Openserve infrastructure in KZN coastal areas resulting in a significant increase in network related faults. According to a statement from the organisation, flooding has restricted technicians from accessing...

SITA opens School of Software Engineering in the Free State

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) will launch its School of Software Engineering for secondary schools in the Free State tomorrow (25 April 2019). The Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education in the Free State, Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, will...

‘Regulation of Airbnb is draconian’

Government published the Tourism Amendment Bill on 12 April. Chris Hattingh, a researcher at the Free Market Foundation, offers his take on the bill. If this had happened on April 1, one could have believed that it was an April Fool’s Joke, so comical is the...

AI used to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges

Intel unveiled its first-generation Neural Compute Stick (NCS) in July 2017, fueling a community of tens of thousands of developers to create artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that have the capability to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems....