May 8, 2017
Information and communication technologies (ICT), and the Internet in particular, can have a transformative effect on education in Africa, says a report launched today by the Internet Society. At the Africa Regional Internet and Development Dialogue in Kigali, Rwanda,...
May 8, 2017
African mobile telecoms operators, infrastructure owners and service providers are ramping up investment and targeting acquisitions across the region to meet the surge in demand for connectivity, according to a telecom transaction adviser. “The African TMT vista...
May 8, 2017
The SAP Africa Quality Awards recognised eight SAP Africa customers for quality innovation, business transformation and fast implementations of digital transformation projects, leveraging SAP solutions. According to Nazia Pillay, head of active quality management at...
May 8, 2017
With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in Star Wars looks like a parched, sandy desert world – but this could be quite different in real life. Thanks to observatories such as NASA’s Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star...
May 8, 2017
While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data...
May 8, 2017
Kathy Gibson at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban – Africa is on the brink of a crisis that could be avoided if governments urgently increase and implement investments in young people between 2017 and 2020. Nachilala Nkombo, interim director of ONE...
