Vodacom’s real growth story isn’t mobile

Vodacom’s real growth story isn’t mobile

For years, Vodacom Group was viewed primarily as a telecommunications operator with an interesting side business in mobile money. That framing no longer holds: the numbers in its latest quarterly trading update show that fintech is not just a growth engine, it is becoming central to the group’s identity. Over the past 12 months, Vodacom’s…

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AI fluency key to unlocking real agentic AI value

AI fluency key to unlocking real agentic AI value

Ruth Hickin, VP of Workforce Innovation at Salesforce. Agentic AI can boost productivity in businesses by removing routine bureaucracy and ‘noise’ from the workplace, but this is only achievable with an AI fluent workforce, says Ruth Hickin, VP of Workforce Innovation at CRM technology firm Salesforce. The company says businesses are looking to emerge as…

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Africa: Online Abuse Is Real Violence – – and Africa’s Women and Girls Are Paying the Price

Africa: Online Abuse Is Real Violence – – and Africa’s Women and Girls Are Paying the Price

– New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world – and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is the digital space. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence includes online harassment, cyberstalking, image-based abuse, deepfake exploitation and coordinated digital attacks, and all of these are proliferating….

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