Smart cities: More than great tech

Smart cities: More than great tech

Smart cities are enabled by technology, but there’s a lot more to them than that. “A smart city is about people, intentions, programmes and initiatives,” explains Edwin Diender, Vice President, Government & Public Utility Sector in Huawei Enterprise Business...
Report back: Huawei Connect 2017, Shanghai

Report back: Huawei Connect 2017, Shanghai

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect, Shanghai -The smart city, while conceptual right now, will become reality as cloud computing, IoT and other enabling technologies come to maturity. “What is sure is that the idea of smart city is here, and it is here to stay,” says...
B2B key to MTN growth in Africa

B2B key to MTN growth in Africa

MTN has been in the news a lot lately – not always for reasons the company might like – but among the less-reported news is the fact that MTN Business, which looks after the company’s high-value enterprise customers, has been quietly changing and growing to tackle a...
Smart cities and even smarter threats?

Smart cities and even smarter threats?

Kathy Gibson recently reported Kaspersky Labs’ Cybersecurity conference in Baku that Smart cities are on their way. Around the world, cities are looking to connected infrastructure and communications to improve service delivery to citizens – but the benefits of smart...
Forget smart city – think smart citizen

Forget smart city – think smart citizen

By Dave Stevens, Head: Customer & Data Insights By 2050, it’s expected that nearly 80% of South Africans will be living in urban areas. This massive acceleration in rural-to-urban migration was highlighted recently by Co-operative Governance and Traditional...