Cryptocurrency funds rural solar power

Sun Exchange, a global solar micro-leasing marketplace, is partnering with rural mini-grid solutions provider, Powerhive, which will utilise the crypto-economy to accelerate global progress towards universal energy access. More than 1-billion people today still live...

Planning key for IT success

Kathy Gibson is at Software AG Innovation Day in Illovo – Business analysis has to go further if organisations hope to innovate. That the word from Patrick Shields, chief technology officer of Software AG, who believes the key is planning. “Digital,...

Nothing to fear in the digitalisation journey

Kathy Gibson is at Software AG Innovation Day in Illovo – Digitalisation is on everyone’s agenda, and organisations are all obsessed with the ability to create new disruption-based business models. But it is also about engaging customers in every way and...
‘No choice but to move forward’, says Obama

‘No choice but to move forward’, says Obama

Former US President Barack Obama has called on the world to cling to the freedoms won by icons like Nelson Mandela. Obama delivered the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, in partnership with the Motsepe Foundation, in Johannesburg yesterday (17 July), ahead of Mandel...

Facebook celebrates Mandela Day

Facebook is celebrating Nelson Mandela International Day on 18 July, marking 100 years since his birth, by inspiring its global community to reflect on Mandela’s legacy of compassion, justice and care for the community. “Nelson Mandela dedicated his life...

Mobile growth will add $150bn to region’s economy

More than half the population of sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by 2025, according to the latest edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy report series. The new report forecasts that there will be 634-million unique mobile subscribers...