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How Fit Analytics Innovation Reclaimed its Independence to Build the Future of AI Commerce

eriinfo.com3 months ago05 mins

AI Shopping Assistant – Fit Analytics Innovation With today’s launch of the AI Shopping Assistant, Fit Analytics Innovation moves beyond the AI-hype-cycle to deliver the conversational guidance modern apparel shoppers crave. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260602315868/en/ Two years ago, Fit Analytics Innovation did the unthinkable: they bought themselves back….

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Africa’s AI Future Hinges On Smaller, Local Data Centres – Experts

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Microsoft and G42’s planned digital investment in Kenya has become a case study in how large infrastructure deals can run into challenges tied to power availability, policy direction, and public interest. Unveiled in 2024, the proposed $1 billion-plus investment led by G42 and partners centered on a green data centre in Olkaria powered by geothermal…

WEF founder signals big future focus for SA

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World Economic Forum founder professor Klaus Schwab and UJ vice-chancellor and principal professor Letlhokwa Mpedi. (Image supplied) Professor Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and former chairperson, has urged local youth to pursue purposeful social entrepreneurship. This, as the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to create new categories of social entrepreneurship, according…

Meet the CIO | Absa CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cyber and the future of banking

eriinfo.com3 months ago05 mins

Absa Group CITO Johnson Idesoh Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer at Absa, says AI in all its forms – generative, agentic and the AI now being wielded by cybercriminals – is the single biggest topic on his desk, but cautions that it remains a tool that has to be tied directly to…

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Africa Has the Capital to Finance Its Future, Now It Must Mobilise It

eriinfo.com3 months ago05 mins

The latest economic outlook report by the African Development Bank (AfDB) projects that the continent will grow at 4.2 per cent in 2026, slightly down from 4.4 per cent in 2025, before bouncing back to its growth trajectory in 2027. The downward revision for 2026 comes at the back of heightened geopolitical tensions and global…

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Africa: Building Ethiopia’s Logistics Future – From Bottlenecks to Flow

eriinfo.com3 months ago08 mins

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Expansion of the Modjo Dry Port is helping goods move faster and lowering logistics costs for businesses, ultimately supporting local and national job creation and growth. While the facility has long been used primarily for imports, the enlargement will allow it to better process outgoing flows, in keeping with the Government of Ethiopia’s…

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Africa: Building Ethiopia’s Pharmaceutical Future – From Strong Regulation to Local Production

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Ethiopia is transforming from an import-dependent market into a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub. After becoming the 9th African nation to reach WHO Maturity Level 3, local production now exceeds 40% of medicine supply. This WBG feature examines how regulation, the Kilinto Special Economic Zone, and research at AHRI and CDT-Africa are driving jobs, exports, and health…

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Africa: What the Global Partnerships Conference and World Health Assembly Tell Us About the Future of Global Health

eriinfo.com3 months ago09 mins

The two meetings happening this week in London and Geneva emphasised the critical importance of promoting locally led agendas and deepening partnerships. As leaders gathered this week in London for the Global Partnerships Conference and in Geneva for the 79th World Health Assembly, one message was clear: global health is entering a new era. For…

Africa’s digital future took centre stage at Sentech Africa Tech Week 2026

eriinfo.com3 months ago06 mins

Topco Media has successfully concluded the Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference 2026, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on 12–13 May 2026. Bringing together government leaders, regulators, investors, enterprise decision-makers, innovators, and technology providers from across the continent, the conference once again reinforced its position as Africa’s leading executive platform focused on…

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Africa’s Future Lies in Collaboration, Institutional Reforms – Owotemu

eriinfo.com3 months ago05 mins

A development expert and author, Dr Abel Owotemu, has called for stronger institutions, transparent financing and deeper regional collaboration to address Africa’s persistent development challenges. He believed that stronger regional cooperation could drive Africa’s growth and unlock the continent’s economic potential. Owotemu, made the call during the unveiling of his new book, “The Fragmentation Paradox:…