Enabling Africa’s youth to build tomorrow

Brett Parker, MD of SAP Africa, thinks the words to the Bob Dylan classic, “The Times they are a’Changing”, are stil relevant today. “Your old road is rapidly agin’. “Please get out of the new one, If you can’t lend your hand...

Why Nigerian CIOs should care about the dark web

The dark web is an increasingly lawless place where cybercriminals trade hacks, passwords, and stolen corporate data. While international regulation was sought to stamp out such practices, the online environment that allowed the Internet to spread so widely and so...

Africa’s transformation will create a third centre of global power

What a difference a century makes. If we stepped back in time to a hundred years ago we’d find a primitive China; a Middle East that had yet to discover the riches of oil and most of Southeast Asia consisted of countries that were barely distinguishable from...

SMEs key to supercharge Kenya’s growth

The party that emerges as the winner of Kenya’s general election, to be held on 8 August, has an opportunity to supercharge job creation and economic growth by adopting policies that help SMEs to thrive. That’s according to Nikki Summers, regional director...

IPv6 security – a new playing field in Nigeria

The slow migration of African countries from Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) has become a source of concern in the region. Even Nigeria, boasting West Africa’s largest economy, has been slow in adopting the new Internet...

TradeSwitch aims to be African digital disruptor

South African technology company MobileData has introduced its service delivery platform TradeSwitch to help companies across Africa successfully transition from bricks and mortar establishments to digital businesses underpinned by mobile and online presence....