Joburg asks developers to solve address issues

The City of Johannesburg’s GeoJozi Developer Challenge calls on developers aged 30 or under to help the City improve its systems of allocating and maintaining addresses across the 1 644 km2 municipality. The competition, focusing on location technology, is being...

More than renewable energy is at risk …

The true impact of cancellations, delays and uncertainty around the IPP and renewable energy programmes go much further than the energy sector. It puts at risk thousands of current and future jobs, a host of local manufacturing companies, communities’ welfare...

IoT platform revenues set for €3bn by 2021

The global third party Internet of Things (IoT) platform market increased 36 % to €610-million in 2015. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30,8%, revenues are forecasted to reach €3,05-billion in 2021. This is according to a new research report from...

Rwanda shows Africa’s investment potential

Foreign investors are frequently prone to basing decisions on their perception of a market, in the case of the Africa, these often lead to misconceptions such as a reliance on aid to improve its development, instead of active investments and collaboration. Despite...

Mobile commerce draws level

The latest analytics coming from TFG’s (The Foschini Group) e-commerce division reveal that more than 50% of the online shopping traffic to the TFG eMall is from mobile devices. During the month of July, well over 500 000 unique users accessed the tfg.co.za...

Startup World Cup comes to SA

Startup World Cup is partnering with SA Innovation Summit in its Ventureburn Pitching Den to host its first ever South African regional competition. The regional competition will be held on 22 and 23 September 2016 as a part of the annual SA Innovation Summit event in...