United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has called on African countries to embrace nuclear energy as a strategic solution to the continent’s deepening energy crisis. In a statement on Saturday, Executive Secretary of ECA, Claver Gatete, said that it was unacceptable that over 600 million Africans still lacked access to electricity. Gatete described the…
Cloud services will make up most of government’s ICT expenditure going forward. The South African government’s move to the cloud has mimicked the slow, bureaucratic processes that often plague the state. However, the public sector is expected to increase spending on cloud services, buoyed by the influx of data centres, hyperscalers courting governments, digital transformation…
Noma Games, specialist business development manager at Altron Digital Business. ITWeb’s survey on trends around the adoption of cloud by South African organisations, being conducted in partnership with Altron Digital Business and Microsoft, has gone live. The survey delves into the state of current cloud adoption within South African companies. It also looks at productivity…
From left: Cuy Sheffield, VP, head of crypto, Visa; Chris Maurice, CEO and co-founder, Yellow Card; Godfrey Sullivan, senior VP, head of product and solution, CEMEA, Visa. Licensed stablecoin payments orchestrator Yellow Card has partnered with global digital payments firm Visa to help drive the next phase of innovation in cross-border payments and financial infrastructure…
