Charting a way forward for ICT

The ICT Advisory Board of the Collaborative Stakeholder Movement (CSM) has defined four areas of urgent focus within the industry: connectivity; skills; fraud and corruption; and innovation. The CSM is an initiative that brings together industry stakeholders who can...

Huawei wins award at Cloud Africa forum

Huawei has been named the winner of the prestigious Best Business Application Cloud Platform Award for its FusionCube cloud solution at the Cloud Africa World Forum held at the Maslow Hotel, in Johannesburg. The Cloud World Forum Africa is the continent’s largest...

DiData launches SDN model

In a move to help organisations understand software-defined networking (SDN), the impact that it will have on their ICT operations, and the protocols and network architectures required to define their future network vision, Dimension Data has launched its...

Orange encourages ICT in African development

Following on from the success of the past three years, Orange has launched the 2014 edition of the Orange African Social Venture Prize. A new category has been introduced for the fourth edition: the “Orange Partner” award will recognize the best project that...

XON learnership programme grows skills

Pan-African ICT group, XON, has enjoyed considerable success from its learnership programme that kicked off in 2009.  To date all five graduates of the first round, which lasted until 2011, have been employed full-time by XON and the business is looking to employ the...