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- 14 Oct 2014
Hagen Urges Local IT Services Providers To Tackle Home Needs
African countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa, in cooperation with international developmental agencies, academia, and ICT vendors, are making considerable…
- 12 Dec 2013
Growth Meets Reality in Africa’s ICT In 2014, Predicts IDC
International Data Corporation (IDC) on Thursday offered the first of its annual predictions for the coming year for the African information and communications technology (ICT) industry. IDC's…
- 18 Oct 2017
IT Leaders’ Challenges: A Shortage Of Talent And A Need To Reinvent Cultures
By Keith Fenner , VP: Sage Enterprise Africa & Middle East African CIOs must master the difficult balance between managing the risks of deploying immature technologies and those of being left…
- 1 Jul 2017
Industry 4.0 – How West African Businesses Can Get Ahead
In the article, Nmonwu, Regional Director for Sage West Africa, says that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will help make businesses of all sizes more efficient, productive and profitable. He lists a…
- 13 Jun 2022
Future of African Super Apps Relies on Great User Experience and Strong Security
Financial institutions are increasingly relying on apps and their turbo charged cousins, super apps, for much needed revenue growth. Organisations that can offer a secure, low-friction app experience…
- 30 Jan 2014
IBM Study Identifies How African Businesses Can Overcome Technology Gap
Research reveals common challenges preventing IT progress in Africa recommends steps to overcome technology roadblocks IBM has announced the results of a new study entitled ‘Setting the pace in…
- 16 Feb 2026
MTN CIO Urges Africa to Lead Fourth Digital Revolution
Chief Information Officer of MTN Nigeria, and recently appointed Executive, IT Core Design for MTN Group, Shoyinka Shodunke says Africa has a rare opportunity to lead and participate in the ongoing…
- 2 Aug 2021
MTN Appoints Shodunke, Sowho, 2 Nigerians for Top Jobs
MTN Group Limited, leading African multinational mobile telecommunications company, has appointed Shoyinka Shodunke and Adia Sowho as chief information officer (CIO) of MTN Nigeria and chief…
- 17 Nov 2013
SAP Africa Launches Urban Matters Initiative
SAP Africa has kicked-off its SAP® Urban Matters initiative at the Africa Urban Matters, Cities of the Future event being hosted in Cape Town. The event focuses on how innovative technology can be…
- 4 May 2015
Over 20 Top IDC Leaders to Attend 2nd W/Africa CIOs Summit
Stephen Elliot, Vice-President of IT Infrastructure and Cloud practice, Mark Walker, vertical market and Insights research and consulting practice at MEA and Lise Hagen, research manager for software…
- 13 Dec 2021
Infobip Debuts Virtual Golf bot at CIO Africa Golf Day
Infobip, a global cloud communication company for businesses and a leader in omnichannel customer engagement, last week at this year’s CIO Africa Golf Day, launched a virtual WhatsApp-based golf bot…
- 4 Dec 2024
Airtel Directors Win Honours @ CIO Awards
Airtel Nigeria’s leadership team has demonstrated outstanding excellence in innovation and technology as two of its directors were honoured with three prestigious awards at the 5th edition of the CIO…
- 12 May 2014
Local Firms Yet to Leverage on Big-Data-Adisa
Bolanle Adisa, country managing director, International Data Corporation (IDC), West Africa, has worked at SAP Africa (Pty) Limited; Computer Warehouse Group (ExpertEdge Software); Digital…
- 19 Apr 2021
Cyber Era NG Partners Tradepass on BYTES ’21: LIVE & CyFrica: LIVE
Cyber Era NG, leading ICT and Digital Economy Publication has wrapped up plans to partner B2B Conferences and event organizers- Tradepass on two potentially industry disruptive virtual events for the…
- 16 May 2023
Microsoft Cyber Signal Report Reveals Increased Security Budget Among Nigerian Organizations
Microsoft’s latest Cyber Signals report highlights how cybercriminals are using Operational Technology (OT) as gateways into an organization’s network. This comes at a time when IoT connections in…
- 14 May 2014
W/Africa Telecoms & IT to Blossom in 2015-Adisa
Bola Adisa, country manager, International Data Corporation (IDC), West Africa, has said the regional telecommunication and IT landscape will receive boosts by 2015, just as findings…
- 27 Nov 2022
CIO Awards Honours Exceptional Chief Information Officers
Transformational personalities in the tech ecosystem were celebrated at the third edition of the CIO Awards, with the theme "Honouring Digital Eminence". Edniesal Consulting Limited, an enterprise…
- 21 May 2023
Microsoft Says Cybercrooks Deploy New Tech to Breach Networks
Microsoft, an American multinational technology corporation has warned that cybercriminals are using Operational Technology (OT) as gateways into an organisation’s network,. This comes at a time…
- 13 Jul 2016
How Signal Alliance Rejigged Continental Re’s Processes with Cloud Tech
Office 365 has saved a lot of time and costs and helped improve productivity. This cloud-based software is actually more secure than on-premises platforms, said Kanma Okafor, CIO, Continental…
- 15 May 2014
IDC's CIO Summit Highlights Africa’s IT Skills Development Needs
Information Technology intelligence and advisory experts drawn from the International Data Corporation (IDC), government and private sectors have re-echoed need for IT skills development in…
- 18 Jun 2024
ntel Taps Adrian Wood as CEO, Plans to Raise $550m
Mr. Adrian Wood, former chief executive officer (CEO) of MTN Nigeria has returned to the Nigerian telecoms space as the new chief executive officer of ntel, which provides 4G LTE advanced network in…
- 14 Aug 2019
Africa’s Data Security Readiness at Low Levels - Report
Despite a high level of IT security awareness and robust corporate IT governance policies in Africa, the level of data security preparedness is still very low. This is according to the 2019 “State of…
- 8 Mar 2016
Vodacom, IBM to Offer First Enterprise Cloud Managed Service in SA
Vodacom has said that it will be hosting the fully redundant IBM CMS Cloud delivery centre for Africa in its Midrand and Roslyn data centres. This is the first IBM Cloud centre to be rolled out in…
- 20 May 2014
Osioke, Akindeinde to Speak @ Hackcess Security Conference
Osioke Ojior, director and group chief risk officer of Interswitch and Oluseyi Akindeinde who is the chief technical officer at Digital Encode are to speak at Hackcess Security conference holding on…
- 4 Sept 2014
Deloitte’s 2014 Report Identifies Tech Trends Disruptors, Enablers
Deloitte, a professional services firm, at the launch of its fifth annual Tech Trends report in Lagos on Wednesday, identified 10 technological trends that could have an impact on African companies…
- 12 Jan 2017
Microsoft, Local Businesses Leaders Set for NexTech Africa 2017
Microsoft and local businesses leaders will be exploring ways to build technology that best supports African creators, as well as how companies can start breeding a data culture for success at…
- 27 Jul 2023
African CEOs Identify Advanced AI and Analytics as Success Drivers - IBM Study
A new global study by the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value found that over half (54%) of African CEOs surveyed identify customer experience as their highest business priority. They also…
- 22 Jul 2022
Cellulant Urges Partnerships in Driving Africa's Payments Transformation
Payments have traditionally been a challenge for African businesses and their banks. Businesses must work with a huge number of partners, for instance, to handle the many forms of payments that…
- 8 Jul 2014
Jagal Group Appoints Ayotunde Coker as MD of Rack Centre
The Jagal Group has appointed Ayotunde Coker as the new managing director of Rack Centre Limited starting in July. Coker is a highly accomplished, commercially astute technology executive with over…
- 24 Aug 2015
Gartner's Report Points to the Growing Importance of Digital Business in Africa
Gartner, Inc.'s "Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa, 2015" report identifies over 30 key technologies and describes how they will impact business performance during the next 10 years. “The Hype Cycle (see…