African innovation must include the poor

Involving low-income communities in markets and businesses across Africa is essential for economic growth to translate into sustainable development, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. Realising Africa’s Wealth – Building...

Innovation key to big data success

CIOs must realise that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, and that to get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analysed with big data. This is according to the...

FNB wins innovation award

FNB has been voted as the most Innovative Bank in the 2013 Banking Innovation Study Results report.  Carried out by the Innovative Agency (Systemic Logic), based in the UK and South Africa, findings were produced on the levels of banking innovations in South Africa....

STI still closed to SA women

  The numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields (STI) are alarmingly low in the world’s leading economies – and are actually on the decline in many, including the US. For South Africa, results show that women have more opportunities...

NFC comes into its own

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 has shown that innovation in the mobile space is fostering new discoveries and development. From contactless payments to embedded devices and connected cities, it is evident that mobile technology is changing the landscape. This...