Southern Africa
Hyper personalisation and enhanced CX will be key to online retailers’ Black Friday campaigns
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Speakers from leading Institutions Join Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa 2022.
#HISA2022 will focus on topics such as the future of healthcare, trends in healthcare funding & innovation, improving healthcare with AI, and enhancing the patient experience with data analytics. The healthcare industry has historically been slow in adopting technology, however, studies show that by embracing emerging technologies such as AI, EHR, IoMT, augmented reality, wearables, and robotics the industry can reap significant benefits, namely improved patient care, lower healthcare costs, dosage error reduction, hospital asset tracking and monitoring, and reducing the need for large numbers of on-site medical personnel in African healthcare facilities. For sustainable success and growth in the healthcare arena, it is critical to embrace technologies that not only result in a reducti...
Trends in global healthcare shifts the focus to innovative skills development
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South Africa’s Shoprite invests in local tech start-up
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Yellow Card Receives First-Ever African Crypto Licence
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South Africa: Konica Minolta launches Innovation Centre
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Zambia: Airtel Africa acquires spectrum for $29 million
Sourced from Comms MEA Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, today announces that its Zambia subsidiary, Airtel Networks Zambia plc (‘Airtel Zambia’), has purchased 60 MHz of additional spectrum spread across the 800 MHz and 2600 MHz bands from the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA), for a gross consideration of $29m, payable in local currency. This additional spectrum will support our network expansion in the market for both mobile data and fixed wireless home broadband capability, including 5G rollout, providing significant capacity to accommodate our continued strong data growth in the country. Zambia is one of our largest markets by revenue. This investment reflec...
Cellulant joins forces with Lusaka Chamber of Commerce to digitize payments for businesses in Lusaka
Gilbert Lungu, Cellulant Zambia Country Manager. Image sourced from Africa Business Communities. Tingg’s uptake across Africa is in high gear, with products like In-store payments which leverage mobile money and mobile banking as payment methods through USSD and QR Codes Cellulant Zambia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lusaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to offer digital payments to its member businesses. Lusaka Chamber of Commerce members can now readily access payment solutions that will enable them to accept payments from their customers’ preferred mobile money wallet. Cellulant’s payment platform, Tingg, which integrates over 290 banks across Africa, is a one-stop payments aggregator for Multinational Corporations and Small and Medium...
Underpinning SA’s BPO Explosion
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MTN SA Rolls Out Green Energy Programme
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How a Data Breach Could Sink an SME
Sourced from CSO. When it comes to reporting on cybercrime, we tend to only come across stories impacting major companies or industries. Apart from the obvious reputational damage, we don’t really grasp the consequences of something like a data breach on a company and its customers. There are no headline articles about the troubles that emerge in the wake of a data breach, some of which literally grind small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into the ground. The media focuses on corporate giants as the only victims of cybercrime and lulls us into a false reality where data breaches seem to happen mostly to corporate behemoths but not the small or medium size business owners. Cybercriminals, who are often well-organised and well-resourced, launch constant attacks on data targets, probing for th...
