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Huawei South Africa has committed R7 million in bursaries to support 48 top ICT students at 5 universities, as part of its wider ICT Talent Ecosystem, which aims to grow and support ICT skills training and skills transfer in South Africa. The ICT sector, especially mobile telecommunications, is a scarce skills sector in South Africa. The number of students in ICT related courses is still low and competition for young recruits is fierce. In awarding these bursaries, Huawei aims to address some of the challenges it’s faced when it comes to recruiting in South Africa. The programme offers students from…
Students from Forge Academy, South Africa’s first fully inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) laboratory, recently took part in a tri-continental hackathon between students from South Africa, Finland and the USA. Organised by EduExcellence, the Finnish education specialists; the South African leg was hosted at Forge Academy in Gauteng. Student teams specialising in ICT studies each designed ChatBot software programme as a digital solution to guide ‘consumers’ through a symptom diagnostics programme for coronavirus symptoms. “The hackathon was a great opportunity for South African ICT students to represent their country and continent among leading tech nations and to grow their ICT…
Vodacom Group, part of Vodafone, will work with Auda-Nepad to build digital infrastructure to manage vaccinations across up to 55 countries, following successful deployments in South Africa – to manage COVID-19 vaccinations – and in Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria – to manage infant inoculations. The roll-out of mVacciNation, developed by Mezzanine, a member of Vodacom, is the first project in a public-private partnership that has been formed between Vodacom Group and Auda-Nepad to boost Africa’s digital transformation and build resilience for the post-Covid world. “Vodacom has been at the forefront of helping governments where we operate to curb the spread…
President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa must forge a new economy in a new global reality. “We have to both recover the ground that we have lost due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and to gain new ground by placing our economy on a fundamentally different growth trajectory,” President Ramaphosa said in his weekly newsletter on Monday. He said the country’s economic recovery plan is not about a return to what was, but about transformation to what is next. “One of the concrete ways that we can do this is by harnessing the job creating potential of the digital economy, whose…
BMW South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa announced the appointment of new CEO Peter van Binsbergen, who officially took over the reins from Tim Abbott in January 2021. Van Binsbergen brings a unique and international perspective as the first South African CEO in the group’s history on the continent. Fittingly, he has returned to his home country to assume the position – the same place where he started his career with the BMW Group almost 27 years ago. Having worked in various leadership positions across the Group, van Binsbergen plans to use his wealth of expertise and leadership skills to drive…
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see both regulators collaborating and sharing ideas on matters of mutual interest. The MOU was signed virtually by both regulators on Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 15h00. The MOU is a non-binding framework to facilitate the exchange of ideas in the field of telecommunications regulation and policy for the mutual benefit of the two regulators. “This is a momentous collaboration that illustrates the confidence that our global counterparts have in ICASA. This collaboration places the…
Discovery Vitality announced today a timeous new reward for members – a month of Netflix for the cost of a coffee or smoothie. For a limited time, Discovery Vitality is offering members an extra incentive to stay fit. From 3 April 2021 until 3 July 2021, you can access a R250 Netflix reward by attaining 150 Discovery Miles for a month. “We have always enhanced our rewards aligned to what we know members will enjoy most as an incentive for keeping fit and healthy. Netflix is the premium streaming platform for current content, and we want to offer our members…
Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) has proceeded with the procurement of an integrated business information system with a total value of €6.5 million (R112 million). The system will be developed and implemented by the consortium of Intrasoft and OTE. The new system signifies a new era of digitization for all administrative corporate processes. The new system is aimed at renovating and upgrading all processes in the fields of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resource Management (HRM), Fixed Asset Management (EAM – Enterprise Asset Management), Planning and Execution of Technical Tasks (WFM – Workforce Management) and Project Management (PS –…
The National Treasury says its technicians are working around the clock to solve a technical problem that saw its e-Tender portal experience technical difficulties. In a statement, the department on Wednesday said the ICT server infrastructure that hosts the e-Tender portal suffered a crash caused by a technical failure. “This resulted in data corruption, leading to the unavailability of the site. Technicians have been hard at work to solve the problem. Updates will be provided on progress and it is expected to be resolved as a matter of priority,” National Treasury said. The e-Tender portal downtime does not impact on…
Absa Group, one of the largest financial service providers in Africa, has launched a cloud incubator initiative in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud services provider, to enhance its cloud computing skills across its operations in Africa. As one of the largest cloud adopters in Africa, Absa is promoting cloud fluency as part of its broader efforts to promote learning, experimentation and innovation across the organisation to enhance the banking experience for its customers. By migrating to the cloud, companies can eliminate the expense of building and managing on-site data centres while gaining the ability to reduce infrastructure…