Digital transformation has quickly become one of the most talked-about disruptors across the world. In fact, Gartner reports that globally 90% of organizations are making it a priority. This means that now, more than ever before, businesses are on the lookout for...
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Advancing 4IR through CSI
With enormous potential to better human lives, the dawn of the connected technological age has placed telecommunications companies at the foreground of advancement of society. The onus is on companies within the 4IR value chain to take the lead in ensuring that the...
Building the skills to participate in the 4IR
Having adequate levels of education and digital skills capacity and capability is pivotal in ensuring that South Africa maximizes the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). However, this is a major challenge that South Africa faces while trying to meet...
Public–private partnerships
The term technology is wide and far reaching – it refers to a plethora of things. It can refer to manufacturing technologies, process technologies, and building technologies, for example. This article focuses on the technology that is today and for the...
South African business prepares for AI-based collaboration
The latest Strategy Analytics Global Mobile Workforce Forecast Update predicts that the mobile workforce will be 1.87 billion strong by 2022 – over 40% of the world’s total number of workers. That is close to 2 billion people who will need to be constantly connected...
Dark Fibre Africa sees 5G as big growth opportunity
Dark Fibre Africa sees fifth-generation (5G) wireless broadband networks as a big growth opportunity as the infrastructure needed to power these networks will require extensive fibre backhaul to connect a much denser network of base stations. DFA CEO, Thinus...
Dark Fibre Africa expands into Zim amid acquisition rumours
HARARE, Zimbabwe – 22 June 2018 – Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has confirmed the launch of its business in Zimbabwe as it looks to expand its business beyond South Africa and extend its existing 10 000km fibre network. Vino Govender, Acting Chief Strategy Officer at DFA...
#AfricaMonth: High-speed connectivity will boost adoption of wearable tech
Wearable technologies offer enormous potential to a wide range of industries – provided they make use of fast, high-quality connectivity. When wearable technologies first began to enter the mainstream, the professional view was that they were mere novelties or...
You wear it well
The idea of wearable technology has been with us since at least as far back as the original Star Trek TV show and films like Forbidden Planet. However, as often happens in science-fiction, it eventually becomes a reality in some shape and form, and the concept of...