Year 4 | Edition 32 | 9 July 2021
 

[Free Webinar] The threat of Ransomware on the Cloud and how to prepare for the worst

When: 13 July 2021

From: 12:00 - 13:30 EAT

Where: Online Webinar

For: Countries across africa apart from francophone countries

This webinar offers the opportunity for Incentro and HYCU to share insights of existing/past cases of ransomware attacks and how they were overcome. The Webinar will focus largely on Google Cloud (Incentro/Google) and Cloud security...

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Eocband partners with Workonline to boost internet connectivity in Ghana

Ghana’s Internet ecosystem has received a welcome boost from a collaboration with local player, Ecoband Networks and Workonline Communications, one of the largest IP transit providers on the African continent.

Workonline, a wholesale provider of Internet connectivity services, announced its presence in Ghana last year, just as the number of Internet users in Ghana breached 15 million in the country.   Ecoband was chosen by Workonline as a provider of dark fibre infrastructure services to assist with...

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Smile Identity raises $7 million to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa

Smile Identity, the company that enables ID verification and KYC compliance through Artificial Intelligence designed for African faces and identities, announced today that the company had secured $7 million in Series A funding.

The investment was co-led by Costanoa Ventures and the pan-African venture firm, CRE Venture Capital, along with participation from LocalGlobe, Intercept Ventures, Future Africa Ventures, and Angel Investors from across Africa and around the world. Existing investors, including Khosla...

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Mauritius Commercial Bank to adopt MITECH's TRAC Collateral Management system in the cloud

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd (MCB) is adopting MITECH’s system TRAC (Trade Risk Active Control) to support a continuous and significant growth in its Commodity Trade Finance (CTF) business.

TRAC is a Trade Risk and Collateral Management system supporting Structured Trade Commodity Finance. The TRAC solution handles not only Transactional Commodity Finance but Borrowing Base structures as well. The TRAC software will be implemented on a Cloud infrastructure, with the aim of...

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Huawei partners with Mondia Pay to enable digital payment options in Algeria and Tunisia

Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) inked a partnership with Mondia Pay, a digital payment provider, that is set to provide Ooredoo Algeria and Orange Tunisia users with safe and convenient payment options.

Huawei device users can now pay for their monthly services, latest games, and favourite applications seamlessly on HUAWEI AppGallery using Direct Carrier Billing services (DCB). With over 2.1 billion global monthly transactions, Mondia Pay aims to provide users in North Africa with secure...

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Kenya Airways Launches Fahari Innovation Hub

Kenya Airways PLC (KQ) has today launched the Fahari Innovation Hub, a centre for innovation that acts as a springboard for new ideas and data-driven innovations to accelerate impact-driven solutions that address some of the societal and business challenges.

The Fahari Innovation Hub is part of KQ’s strategy in contributing to the sustainable development of Africa by empowering, partnering, and co-creating innovative ideas and strategies with local start-ups and the small-medium...

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Consumer appetite for digital payments takes off in Nigeria, Mastercard payments index

As the world went into pandemic lockdown in 2020, consumers shifted their spending habits to embrace contactless tap-and-go payments and online shopping.

As stores closed and social distancing took hold, retailers worldwide moved their businesses online, embraced e-commerce and explored the potential of new ways to pay. More than a year later, research from Mastercard shows that the adoption of new payment technologies is rising, and consumer appetite for new, fast and flexible digital...

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[Vacancy] Incentro is looking for a Senior back-end developer in Nairobi
Incentro is directly looking for a Senior back-end developer in Nairobi. Are you ready for MORE responsibility? As a senior back-end developer, Incentro Kenya is the perfect place for you! Take your next career step.

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With a passion for development, you'll go a long way with us. What else do we want from you?

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[Africa Cloud Review] Simon Ngunjiri: There’s an increasing demand for data centers in Africa

As internet penetration in African continues to increase, the demand for data centers is also booming. Customers in Africa are increasingly using data centres to access public cloud-based services from hosts like Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others.

For the time being, Africa accounts for less than 1% of the world’s co-location data centre supply, with South Africa accounting for the bulk of the continent’s capacity. Co-location facilities rent space, power and cooling to enterprise and...

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[Column] Titilayo Adewumi: Cybercrime is an existential threat to West Africa's economic growth

While organisations across West Africa work to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic, the global cybercrime industry is going into overdrive.

An increasingly sophisticated cybercrime industry is launching a range of attacks aimed at organisations and critical infrastructure. Such attacks are growing in volume and sophistication, putting our collective economic recovery at risk at a time when organisations invest more heavily in digital technologies. Global attacks on Internet of Things devices...

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[Column] Grant Phillips: Digital transformation should be about the customer, not the technology

Digital transformation alongside automation enablers like artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), coupled with the responsible utilisation of data assets will be determining business success factors over the next five years, according to Grant Phillips, Group CEO at e4.

While the landscape will be enormously different in the coming years, Phillips says that the brands who will succeed the most are those that move beyond a fascination with the technology itself but to understand how it can address ever changing...

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[Africa Tech Review] Duncan Mochama: Sub-Saharan Africa to reach 70 million 5G subscriptions by 2026

The arrival of 5G in Africa has been headlining for a while, promising improved connectivity and communication, driverless cars and so much more. Data from the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, released this week now shows Sub-Saharan Africa to reach 70 million 5G subscriptions by 2026

Globally, Ericsson projects that 5G mobile subscriptions will exceed 580 million by the end of 2021, driven by an estimated one million new 5G mobile subscriptions every day.  During...

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