by Dianne Bayley | Jul 1, 2020 | Sustainability
According to UNICEF’s Generation 2030/Africa Report, over the next three decades almost two billion babies will be born in Africa. In fact, the report predicts that, by 2050, roughly 40% of all births, and the same percentage of all children, in the world will...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2020 | Security and Legal
As owners and operators of critical infrastructure converge their IT and Operational Technology (OT) departments and systems, they face increased cyber risk, warns Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director at Fortinet.. Threat actors have quickly moved to target...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2020 | Sustainability
Much has been said and written about the changes COVID-19 has brought to businesses. While most of the focus has been on enabling people and systems to work remotely, the pandemic has highlighted a number of other technology areas where conventional wisdom no longer...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2020 | Innovation
Vuma has always been a connectivity company, says Dietlof Mare CEO, Vuma Our roots, quite literally, are in fibre. However, we’ve always had a clear mission: our job is to connect people. In this age of COVID-19 remote working, we are even more conscious of...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 29, 2020 | Security and Legal
With cybercrime escalating in volume and sophistication every year, consumer trust is a bigger challenge for organisations than it’s ever been, says Ross Sibbald, Commercial Director at Striata, Africa. And while legislation such as the EU General Data Protection...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 29, 2020 | Security and Legal
Revenues in the global biometric system market is expected to top $30 billion by 2022, up from less than $20 billion in 2017, writes Vic Esterhuizen, Executive: Biometrics at XDS. During that time frame, facial recognition technology represents one of the most...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 27, 2020 | Innovation
From tsunamis to ash clouds and global financial crises, the travel industry has seen its share of setbacks over the past few years. The industry has always handled these events with admirable resilience and managed to bounce back quickly from each disaster. Maher...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 26, 2020 | Sustainability
It was a big day for the retail business banking sector last week as Grobank and Sureswipe, South Africa’s largest independent payment service provider, announced a partnership that combines financial reliability and safety coupled with merchant solutions to service...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 24, 2020 | Innovation
The novel coronavirus Covid-19 has had an immense impact on a range of industries, including the digital banking sector. In parallel to the difficulties it posed, the unforeseen circumstances have opened up new opportunities for increasing industry security and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 24, 2020 | Innovation
The United Engine Corporation (UEC) of Russia’s State Corporation for Assistance to Development Rostec and Zyfra, Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader, have begun testing the Zyfra Industrial Internet of Things Platform (ZIIoT). The system, which includes...
