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Twilio’s Next Generation Platform: An Infrastructure Layer for Every Conversation in the Agentic Era

eriinfo.com6 days ago015 mins

Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the infrastructure for customer engagement in the AI era, kicked off its user conference, SIGNAL, by unveiling its next generation platform capabilities for the agentic era. Generally available today, Conversation Memory, Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Intelligence, and Agent Connect combine to turn disparate interactions into continuous, intelligent, and personal conversations across humans, agents,…

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Africa: Kindness as Infrastructure: What Africa—and the World—Can Learn from the Frontlines of Global Airports

eriinfo.com1 week ago06 mins

In the modern world, airports are more than transit points. They are emotional crossroads — where hope, anxiety, loss, and opportunity intersect in real time. Every day, millions of passengers move through these spaces, carrying not just luggage, but stories. After more than two decades working in airport customer service across the United States, I…

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African Union Advances Continental Infrastructure Agenda At 5th Stc-T&e Session in Johannesburg

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago010 mins

The African Union Commission (AUC) concluded the Fifth Ordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Transport and Energy (STC-T&E) today in Johannesburg, bringing together Ministers and experts from across the continent to accelerate infrastructure integration and address critical challenges in Africa’s transport and energy sectors. The four-day session, hosted by the Republic of South…

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Africa: Ruto Urges Africa to Mobilise Domestic Capital, Warns Foreign Funding Delays Infrastructure Projects

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago04 mins

Nairobi — President William Ruto has urged African countries to mobilise domestic capital to finance infrastructure development, warning that continued reliance on foreign funding is slowing down progress and undermining the continent’s long-term development agenda. Speaking during the opening of the Africa We Build Summit in Nairobi, Ruto said Africa’s development ambitions risk remaining unfulfilled…

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Africa: President Ruto Urges Africa to Tap Domestic Capital for Infrastructure Development

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago05 mins

Nairobi — President William Ruto has called on African nations to mobilise their own financial resources to fund critical infrastructure, warning that overreliance on foreign capital is slowing the continent’s development ambitions. Speaking during the opening of the The Africa We Build Summit 2026 in Nairobi, the President said Africa must take control of its…

Sentech urges investment in SA’s digital infrastructure

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago04 mins

Sentech CEO Tebogo Leshope. Strengthening South Africa’s digital infrastructure is critical to unlocking socio-economic growth, says Sentech CEO Tebogo Leshope. As a result, the country needs to “respond decisively by accelerating investment and strengthening critical skills” across both the public and private sectors, he notes. Key among the digital infrastructure investments is the country’s data…

Reimagining TVET Colleges through digital transformation and smart learning infrastructure

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago05 mins

Sizwe Africa IT Group Hikvision Even Flow Team. This week’s official launch of the Gert Sibande TVET College 4IR Lab and Centre of Specialisation represents a major milestone in advancing the Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) vision for modern, digitally enabled TVET institutions that respond to the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution…

NetApp Collaborates with Google Cloud to Power Data Infrastructure for Distributed Cloud

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago05 mins

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud with a 4-year Enterprise Agreement to accelerate the deployment of the NetApp storage solutions within the Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDC), Google’s sovereign cloud platform delivered by World Wide Technology (WWT). The NetApp data platform within…

Iran war damaged as much as billion of energy infrastructure: Rystad

Iran war damaged as much as $58 billion of energy infrastructure: Rystad

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago04 mins

The Iran war has damaged as much as $58 billion worth of energy infrastructure, according to an estimate published by consulting firm Rystad Energy on Wednesday. Iran has attacked the oil and gas infrastructure of its Gulf Arab neighbors including production facilities, refineries and pipelines among other targets. Israel has bombed natural gas and petrochemical…

Icasa’s infrastructure database plan raises national security alarm

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago06 mins

A body representing South Africa’s largest telecommunications operators has warned that Icasa’s proposed national infrastructure database could create national security risks and has accused the ICT sector regulator of failing to tackle the municipal wayleave bottleneck that has long throttled broadband roll-out. In preliminary feedback to TechCentral on the draft rapid deployment regulations gazetted on…