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IndabaX Stellenbosch 2025 unites Africa’s top AI minds for a week of learning, innovation, and community in the heart of ...
Prof Mpho Primus on African language datasets, ethical AI, and recreating Sophiatown in the metaverse. A bold vision for ...
In this episode of iAfrikan BYTES, we’re joined by Dr. Jabu Motsweni, Chief Researcher and Centre Manager at the Information and Cyber Security Centre of the Council for Scientific and Industrial ...
According to Baobab Insights, as of 17th December 2020, the total investment into African startups in 2020 was $1,213 billion. This is some way behind the total recorded in 2019 ($1,987 billion) and ...
South Africa's Minister of Communications, Mondli Gungubele, has just gazetted the final draft of the National Data and Cloud Policy, a comprehensive framework aimed at using the power of data and ...
For years, StarSat, the pay-TV operator in South Africa, has lived in the shadows of MultiChoice’s DStv, often perceived as the underdog in an industry where market dominance is fiercely guarded. When ...
The emergence of the insurance sector allowed individuals to share risks and pool resources to lessen the effect of unforeseen disasters by offering financial protection against them. Using technology ...
On the 25 and 26 of May 2022, the assets of Yekani Manufacturing's smart industrial complex in East London, South Africa were auctioned off. After becoming insolvent and unable to repay debts, the R1 ...
As a young boy, Nando de Freitas was always captivated by the way machines behaved, while growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe. From studying electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...
Maryanne Kitany, a Member of Parliament from Aldai, filed a motion in the National Assembly calling for government regulation of internet billing by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Kenya through ...
Long before cell phones (mobile phones) were popular in Afrika, and even in Western countries such as the USA, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo) already had a reported 3,000 mobile ...