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On the sidelines of the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development, the African Development Bank and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further advance their collaboration. The agreement builds...
Brace for severe solar storms tonight
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AI key to making roads safer in future
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Digital-only banking set for global growth
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South Africans ‘waste’ opportunities to e-recycle
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Education needed to improve Africa’s low levels of climate change literacy
The average national climate change literacy rate (percentage of population that has heard about climate change and thinks that human activity is wholly or partly the cause of climate change) in Africa is only 37%, with vast differences among countries. This is...
Digital commerce will be impacted by these technologies
Over the next two years, visual configuration, digital wallets, customer identity and access management (CIAM) and virtual customer assistants (VCAs) will have high impact on digital commerce as mainstream adoption of these technologies increases, according to the...
Carrier multi-access edge cloud to reach $16bn
International Data Corporation (IDC) sees 2021 as an accelerated year for multi-access edge cloud (MEC) investments. MEC buildouts are being carried out by a broad cross-section of edge stakeholders (e.g., wireless and wireline communications service providers, cable...
Innovative startups set to disrupt, drive development of edge computing
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Commonwealth urges vaccine equity
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Bringing voice onto the enterprise network
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HP announces expanded portfolio
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Intuate Group to offer Noble IQ products
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Mobilising apps for Africa
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CRS Technologies empowers HR practitioners
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Procuring a next generation contact centre
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Huawei upgrades PCI DSS-compliant solutions
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