Oracle opens Joburg Innovation Hub

Oracle has announced the opening of an Innovation Hub in Johannesburg, a first for Oracle in Africa that will help drive the adoption of emerging technologies across the country’s corporates, public sector and academia. Oracle’s Innovation Hub is aimed at...

These are the highlights of DevConf 2019

DevConf, South Africa’s forum for software developers, has unveiled its line-up of speakers for DevConf 2019. Jade Abbott, a senior software developer and data scientist at Retro Rabbit, will help answer cloud performance questions in a cloud shootout pitting...

Children collaborate on sustainable designs

The fourth edition of the Global Children’s Designathon took place on Saturday 3 November, where 1 000 children across 30 cities around the world worked in parallel to design creative solutions to combat global deforestation, part of the Sustainable Development...

1 200 entreprneurs enter new competition

The Lions Den, organiser of the Scooler movement, announced their second entrepreneurship platform, specifically aimed at black South African entrepreneurs, with the launch of The Black Lion Entrepreneur Movement. The Black Lion launched with a competition inviting...
How Moscow transformed into a smart city

How Moscow transformed into a smart city

With almost 1 000 years of history under its belt, Moscow has transformed itself into a smart city in just seven years. Today, the Moscow Smart City uses a variety of disruptive technologies including blockchain in an e-voting system; a widespread WiFi network; public...

Gartner names top financial services innovators

South Africa’s Nedbank was among the finalists in the 2018 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for financial services in the EMEA region. The award recognizes innovative use of digital-technology-enabled capabilities, products or services to highlight “best in...