East Africa is in the midst of an unprecedented economic growth, fuelled by digitalisation across all sectors. The key to ensuring continuous progress along this path is affordable satellite connectivity alongside terrestrial networks, and governments are working closely with solution providers to enable this and empower their people. Alaa Alsadi is Business Development Director ...
The exclusive agreement between Alibaba Cloud and Telkom subsidiary BCX announced this week represents a unification of market influence that will differentiate both companies. It is a significant development especially as competition to secure a share of Africa’s increasing GDP (from 3% of global GDP in 2021 to between 16% and 20% in 2050) heats up. That...
System integrator BCX has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of the Alibaba Group, to bring the best-in-class cloud technologies to local businesses in South Africa to drive local digitalisation. In a statement released late on 21 September, the two parties confirmed an exclusive distribution contract to grant...
Global distributor Westcon-Comstor Africa said it never stopped servicing the Tanzania market, but has resumed local delivery operations after this was stopped in mid-2016. From this time, the company covered the Tanzania market through its operations and support team based in Kenya, and ensured the delivery of goods and services through its European operations. The...
Recognizing the vital role of education, students and their families across sub-Saharan Africa have started using educational technologies to supplement formal schooling during times of disruption. Mobile laboratories (mobile labs) bring scientific tools and techniques right to the school parking lot, allowing students access to experiences far beyond what many schools can provide. In Chad,...
Cyber strategy in Africa is more mature than ever before, with nearly three-quarters (74%) of Africa’s large companies saying they have a relatively mature approach to privacy and cyber security. In addition, 75% of companies said their strategies were either regularly refreshed or had been built in alignment with their threat profile with measurable KPIs....
Africa leads the way in terms of bandwidth growth levels, experiencing the “most rapid” growth of international internet bandwidth and beating global growth estimates. The continent experienced a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44% between 2018 and 2022, reveals telecommunications market research and consulting firm TeleGeography. Asia’s bandwidth growth is just behind the African continent,...
Cassava Technologies’ Africa Data Centres has expanded its South Africa-based Samrand Facility (Centurion, Gauteng) from 10MW to 40MW in a continuation of its phased infrastructure development strategy. Tesh Durvasula, CEO of Africa Data Centres, said, “The expansion will happen in multiple phases. The construction of the first phase is starting today and will deliver 20MW...
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Patanmi hailed on Saturday the strong growth of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector as the sector recorded an unprecedented share in the economy in the second quarter of 2022. According to the latest data by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics(NBS), the country’s Gross Domestic Product...
In their Digital Report 2022, Kepios and We Are Social indicate that Equatorial Guinea has 386,600 Internet users. That is a penetration rate of 26.2% for a population of 1.47 million inhabitants. The authorities of Equatorial Guinea indicated on Friday August 26 that the country was at risk of suffering an interruption of Internet services, due...
