AS financial services increasingly move towards digital platforms, savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs) across Africa face growing pressure to modernise their operations, strengthen accountability and develop services that respond to the needs of a younger generation. For millions of people who depend on cooperatives to save money, access loans and finance economic activities, the…
Graeme Millar, Managing Director, SevenC. When entrepreneurs start a business, they usually think about customers, sales, cashflow and growth, not about governance. Governance and compliance can easily feel like something you only need to prioritise down the line, once the business grows. But retrofitting governance is a bit like trying to strengthen a house’s foundations…
Victoria, Seychelles — After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier–vast, ownerless and beyond meaningful protection–the High Seas Treaty entered into force on 17 January 2026. It was a landmark achievement for international cooperation and a reminder that, even in an increasingly divided world, nations can still come…
Growing use of autonomous AI workflows creates concerns over data security and regulatory compliance. (Image source: iStock) Seventy percent of surveyed EMEA organisations admit automated artificial intelligence (AI) workflows are interacting with sensitive corporate data without full oversight. This, as growing executive accountability for regulatory compliance turns AI governance into a boardroom risk. These findings…
Pheello Motolo, senior manager for IT infrastructure and operations, cyber security and GRC at Motus Car Rental, will deliver the keynote address at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026 on 29 September. Organisations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) faster than governance frameworks can keep up, and if left unchecked, this opens the door to increased risks. That’s…
Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or within the continent South Africa–to access in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related treatments. The costs of travel alone made this a…
Africa must develop a new generation of purposeful leaders and stronger institutions if it is to break a cycle of governance failures that continues to undermine the continent’s development ambitions, speakers at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum have said. The issue took centre stage during a presidential panel on Tuesday, August 25, bringing together President…
AI adoption is gathering pace across the enterprise, bringing new opportunities alongside new risks. (Source: ChatGPT) The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a growing gap between what companies can deploy and their ability to govern it. This emerged during a panel discussion at the recent TrendAI Spark 2026 in Sun City. The…
Tightening audit and governance with Nintex K2 and ServiceNow. A Nintex K2 and ServiceNow integration that gave a petrochemical company a full audit trail of every change from development to production. First Digital’s client needed to strengthen its IT general controls so it could prove exactly what changed across the software life cycle. The existing K2…
The Faranani DocTec stand at last year’s OpenText Summit. Content management and effective governance are critical foundations for AI adoption, with unmanaged data posing an organisational risk and undermining AI progress. This is according to Faranani DocTec, an OpenText Reseller Platinum Partner and Titanium Experience Partner of the upcoming OpenText Summit Africa 2026 in Johannesburg….
