Browsing: digital divide

In a major boost for rural education, Telkom has partnered with the Eastern Cape Department of Education to bridge the…

HERMANUS, CAPE TOWN – In an address at the SATNAC 2025 conference, Openserve’s Chief Network Officer Robert Jorge laid out…

As the 45th Southern Africa Telecommunications Association (SATA) Conference wrapped up at the Sandton Convention Centre in April, the spotlight…

The digital revolution is transforming African education, with universities embracing online learning and digital systems. However, this progress brings a…

Today as the world marks World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), South Africa reflects on its journey from an…

As South Africa commemorates Human Rights Month this March, we must confront an escalating crisis that threatens to entrench inequality…

Access to information, education, and opportunity is one of the defining human rights issues of our time. In a world…

Much ink has been spilled over the so-called “digital divide,” “connecting the unconnected,” and “digital exclusion.” But have we ever…

About one-third of the global population, around 3 billion people, don’t have access to the internet or have poor connections…

Today, almost a quarter of Australians are digitally excluded. This means they miss out on the social, educational and economic…

South Africa’s failing infrastructure and local service delivery has been well-documented in recent years. Failing infrastructure has an outsize impact…

Musicians worldwide have been placing their tracks with global streaming platforms such as Spotify for many years. South African musicians,…

In an increasingly online world, digital literacy is key to communicating, connecting, finding employment and accessing services. In South Africa,…

The COVID-19 pandemic, without a question, forced the world into the digital realm. It also widened the divide between the…

Starlink is on the brink of providing an upgrade to how the internet is accessed in today’s digital economy. With…

by Walter Matli Most young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa continue to be denied access to information and…

by Ryan Hawthorne and Lukasz Grzybowski Mobile services have had an important and positive impact on developing countries where they are…

Technology can be used to unify and industrialise African economies, says Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel. “Data is to…