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What does the Government plan for SAPO?
Minister Stella Abrahams-Ndabeni was the key note speaker at an event, Digital Drivers, organized by Microsoft and the US Chamber of Commerce at TUCS on 8 Nov which I attended.…
Read MoreEntrpreneurship in the Digital Economy
Earlier this month I spoke at a conference on “Industry 4.0” (4IR) in Morocco as the guest of the UN Industrial Development Organisation. Morocco has one of the highest numbers…
Read MoreBlack Friday 2019
This year’s Black Friday is 6 days nearer to 25 December than normal, giving sellers a challenge when looking at their sales over the end of year Festive Season. Many sellers in South Africa…
Read MoreOpportunities – Continuing our list of opportunities
FemCode Africa is looking for passionate females who want to join in the training and who want to be part of the amazing things tech education can bring. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh0yp_YtQT5WRA2Cak8UBuY1-OL_rdkrdRCjHfD3XUcbiR-w/viewform?usp=send_form Eiffel…
Read MoreWell, I never…!
Google says it has built a computer that is capable of solving problems that classical computers practically cannot. According to the scientific journal Nature, Google’s processor, Sycamore, performed a truly random-number generation…
Read MoreSome useful Microsoft to use for your ecommerce
Azure Arc: you can now use Azure to manage resources anywhere, including on AWS and Google Cloud Microsoft launches Project Cortex, a knowledge network Microsoft launched Endpoint Manager to modernize…
Read MoreOther News from around Africa
Why Motorbike Apps Are Scrambling For Africa: Traffic jams are the great waster of time across Africa. Young men with no jobs got the motorbike taxi industry going – and now…
Read MoreThe Ecommerce Foundation Publishes Reports on Ecommerce in the USA and China
With a young population and growing GDP, China is showing strong growth in ecommerce, adding 76 million new online shoppers in 2018. However, as the Ecommerce Report: China 2019 shows, limitations in…
Read MoreZimbabwe Backtracks on Ban on Mobile Money Services
Zimbabwe continues to get in the news for all the wrong reasons. On 28 September the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe banned the quoting of prices in foreign currency. It then…
Read MoreAfrica’s New City Projects Come at Billion-dollar Costs
We all recall President Ramaphosa’s SONA presentation, in which he set out the vision of a new smart city in SA. He is not the only President with such a…
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