African content to boost connectivity growth

There’s a new wave of growth on the horizon for African Internet companies and it’s being driven by an innovative worldwide phenomenon called remote peering. NAPAfrica – Africa’s fastest growing neutral internet exchange point (IXP) – is the first African...

Africa bullish on mobile money, content

Business confidence in mobile content and commerce revenue growth is high in Africa, with over two-thirds of respondents in Kenya (70%) and South Africa (68%) – and almost all in Nigeria (93%) – stating their optimism. This was revealed by MEF, which has...

Content marketing pays dividends

Communication professionals are seeing a high return on investment from implementing a content marketing strategy. This is according to a report by Waggener Edstrom entitled Content Marketing: Puncturing the Hype and Getting Practical, which found that of the 82% of...

SAP, UCT to develop content for Africa

SAP University Alliances Africa has, together with the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OvGU) in Germany, launched a three-year project to develop an enterprise systems (ES) education platform, curriculum and community for...

Nokia, T2T set out to map Africa

Nokia is partnering with the Tsitsikamma to Tataouine Expedition (T2T) to build HERE map content for the African continent. The expedition, which headed off  from Tsitsikamma in South Africa on 5 October, sees three intrepid explorers travel across 24 countries in...