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Africa Data Centres achieves level one B-BBEE certification, reinforcing its commitment to inclusive digital transformation

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago04 mins

Africa Data Centres achieves level one B-BBEE certification, reinforcing its commitment to inclusive digital transformation. Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader of African heritage, has announced it has achieved a level one B-BBEE (broad-based black economic empowerment) certification. This is the highest rating under South Africa’s B-BBEE Codes of…

Gen Digital: AI arms race fuels pharma fraud, ransomware, social scams

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago012 mins

As AI accelerates both innovation and risk, Gen Digital’s Q2 2025 Threat Report delivers a clear message: cybercriminals are using technology smarter – and more personally – than ever before. Their findings span AI-powered ransomware, pharmaceutical fraud, social media scams, and a surge in remote access attacks. Let’s unpack the most urgent threats facing consumers…

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Africa: Ghana’s Digital Revolution Could Finally Unlock Economic Growth

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago011 mins

From smart IDs to AI hubs, digitisation can fast-track growth and close the gap with global peers like South Korea. Ghana and South Korea gained independence around the same period, and their developmental trajectories are often compared. For five centuries, Ghana has been part of the Gold Coast, and the mineral is still the country’s…

Absa partners with Home Affairs to expand digital AI and passport services

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago02 mins

Absa has become the fourth major South African bank to join the Department of Home Affairs’ new digital partnership model. This collaboration will expand access to Smart ID and passport services by making them available in more bank branches and through the bank’s digital app. This new partnership overhauls an existing pilot project that Absa…

Digital CX – why empathy still matters in an AI-driven world

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago010 mins

Something happens when machines get smarter: we start craving the human touch. Across industries, customer experience (CX) is being reshaped by automation, AI and data. Businesses are rushing to keep up with customers who want instant responses, seamless transitions across channels and service that remembers who they are. However, there is a danger in the…

Designing for disruption: Building redundancy into SA’s digital infrastructure

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago07 mins

Adil El Youssefi, Chief Executive Officer, Africa Data Centres. (Image: Africa Data Centres) In May 2025, a brief yet wide-reaching internet outage in South Africa, caused by a single point of failure in a core internet exchange, revealed just how exposed even mature digital ecosystems can be. The interruption only lasted a few minutes, but…

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Africa: ‘Take Urgent Steps to Address Africa’s Digital Divide’ – Speaker of Parliament Urges African Parliaments

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago03 mins

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has urged African parliaments to take urgent steps to address the digital divide between countries and regions, citing the technological gap between the parliaments of Rwanda and Ghana as an example. He indicated that the uneven access to modern technology and digital tools across the continent was…

How mobility is powering the next digital revolution

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

Paul Stuttard, director, Duxbury Networking. Over the past decade, the focus on mobile technology has largely centred on devices such as smarter cellphones, faster WiFi and improved-quality digital cameras. But this focus is rapidly broadening. We are now entering an era where mobility is no longer about handheld gadgets − it’s at the heart of…

New board to steer SA’s R114m digital news initiative

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago04 mins

The DNT Fund aims to back small publishers with digital tools and innovation. South Africa’s new Digital News Transformation Fund (DNT Fund) has appointed its inaugural board, comprising a diverse group of media leaders. The inaugural board is made up of eight members, including ICT heavyweight and Broadbrand CEO Vincent Maher, who serves as co-chair…

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African Developers, Lawmakers and Civil Society Are Partnering With Women to Embed Safety Into Digital Platforms From the Ground Up, With the Aim of Preventing Tech-Driven Gender Violence Before It Begins.

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago014 mins

Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…