Tangier, Morocco — Africa must move swiftly to harness data and frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive its economic growth and make the continent globally competitive in the digital economy, a senior official at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has told policymakers. Opening the Committee of Experts segment of…
President Ntuli, managing director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise South Africa. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) South African organisations risk undermining their AI ambitions if they fail to modernise their networks, according to executives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Speaking at an event in Rosebank yesterday, President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa, and Mandy Duncan, country…
Brainwave Africa on Saturday hosted a community dialogue in Kampala, bringing together teachers, parents, and students to discuss the future of digital learning in Uganda. The event, held in Bugolobi, also marked the official launch of the Brainwave Africa digital learning platform, a home-grown solution aimed at improving access to quality education. Speaking at the…
Imagine it’s 2036. Unemployment has been halved, business confidence is robust, and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises are powering sustainable growth. South Africa finally looks like a country realising its potential. At the heart of this shift is a simple but transformative change: the widespread adoption of PayShap, a low-cost instant payment system that…
BVNK co-founder Chris Harmse The use cases for stablecoin adoption are stronger in Africa, where formal banking channels are weaker than in more developed markets. A new report from BVNK and YouGov has found that Africans are more likely to hold, use and want to be paid in stablecoins compared to people in other regions…
A new report highlights the low prevalence of formal AI strategies in SA hotels. (Image source: 123RF, created via GenAI) While artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has become widespread, with local enterprises leveraging AI tools, it remains in early stages across South African hotels. This is according to the inaugural Hospitality Asset Management Company (HAMAC) South…
Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati believes government is missing out on the opportunities presented by the AI revolution because cloud adoption in the public sector is lagging the private sector. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on the sidelines of the Johannesburg leg of the Microsoft AI Tour…
NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises modernize legacy systems, adopt agentic AI responsibly and scale innovation across industries. Combining NTT DATA’s expertise in cloud transformation, cloud-native modernization and Agentic AI with the scale…
An LG Cloid robot stands on stage during an LG Electronics news conference at CES 2026. Steve Marcus/Reuters Just four years after the launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot that brought artificial intelligence into the mainstream, and it seemed like almost every exhibitor at the CES show in Las Vegas this week was touting an AI-powered…
Greg van der Spuy shows off the Cardware wallet, which is aimed at more technically proficient users Cryptocurrency players must decrease the level of technical proficiency required for prospective users to participate in the sector to accelerate mass market adoption. This is according to Greg van der Spuy, CEO of Cardware Wallet, who was speaking…
