Business leaders and cyber security experts shared insights on ITWeb TV during the 20th annual ITWeb Security Summit 2025. At the annual ITWeb Security Summit 2025, technology professionals used the opportunity to reflect on changes in SA’s cyber security ecosystem and what issues need to be addressed to help this market advance. Speaking to ITWeb…
Addis Abeba– Daily cholera cases in the Amhara Region have declined in recent weeks, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which attributed the development to a “coordinated response” implemented jointly with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and the Amhara Public Health Institute (APHI). Africa CDC said the deployment…
Abuja — Most African Governments Don’t Meet Global Funding Benchmarks Most African governments have consistently failed to meet global and regional education funding targets to ensure quality public education, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union‘s Day of the African Child. The 2025 theme for the day is “planning and budgeting for children’s…
Sydney — Registering the birth of a newborn, which is taken for granted in many countries, has profound lifelong repercussions for a child’s health, protection, and well-being. But after initially increasing this century, the global birth registration rate has declined in the past ten years, with some countries in the Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa facing…
Raina MacIntyre is one of Australia’s most respected epidemiologists. She was a familiar face and calm voice during the COVID-19 pandemic. So when I was asked to review her new book Vaccine Nation I was delighted to accept. Review: Vaccine Nation: Science, Reason and the Threat to 200 Years of Progress – Raina MacIntyre (UNSW…
Fibre network operators are regarded as key contributors to narrowing SA’s deep digital divide. South Africa’s fibre network operators (FNOs) are steadily improving their rating levels among internet service providers (ISPs), which bodes well for internet industry services. This is according to the Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA), which yesterday released its…
