May 19, 2017
A German/South African healthcare innovation has won the German Global Health Award by the German Healthcare Partnership (GHP), the BDI (Federation of German Industry) and BIO Germany (the association of the biotechnology industry) at the B20 Global Health Conference...
May 19, 2017
Advances in automation are transforming the supply chain workforce of the future. No longer relegated to the factory floor; robots are supplementing and augmenting human roles in such knowledge-intensive areas as supply chain planning, customer order management, and...
May 19, 2017
The rise of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could relegate central banks to the sidelines unless they confront the challenges that cryptocurrency brings: decentralised financial dealings, anonymous transfers and the marginalisation of the middleman. “There is...
May 18, 2017
Microsoft will open cloud data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, offering Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from 2018. It is the first international vendor to commit to building its own facilities in South Africa. These data centres will be the first from...
May 18, 2017
The question on how the Trump administration’s policies will impact Africa was met with mixed reaction during a briefing at the African Utility Week Conference underway in Cape Town. The panellists, all leading experts in investment, grappled with questions like “does...
May 18, 2017
Amidst what has been called the worst drought in Cape Town in 100 years, a city official told delegates at the African Utility Week conference there was no way they could reasonably have anticipated the severity of this drought. Cape Town residents are now bracing...
