Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Zoho Nigeria, Digital Encode Limited, Inq.Digital, Notion Technologies limited have indicated their plans to sponsor the third edition of the Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH 3.0). Themed: “Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) in Emerging Economy”, AfriTECH 3.0 is also supported by Comercio Limited, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Datasixth Security Consulting, PalmPay, Reliance Infosystem, […]
Read MoreSwedish kit vendor Ericsson has unveiled what it calls a ‘software toolkit’ that aims to enable premium 5G connectivity services. The toolkit has four main components. Some new algorithms are designed to improve the performance of MIMO pairing and beamforming, which in turn should improve mid-band capacity. There are also improvements to RAN slicing such […]
Read MoreChapel Hill Denham’s Nigeria Infrastructure Debt Fund (“NIDF” or the “Fund”) has agreed to provide long-term financing to Tizeti Network Limited (“Tizeti” or the “Company”) (https://www.Tizeti.com) – West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider. The senior debt facility will be used to finance the rollout of Tizeti’s state-of-the art broadband network across 15 states in […]
Read MoreThe Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) is worried that there are some personal data that are sensitive, which require additional safeguards, such as health records, labour union affiliation, sexual orientation, and information that can be used for discriminatory purposes. The National Commissioner/CEO, Dr Vincent Olatunji NDPC who made the observation while receiving the Minister of […]
Read MoreMicrosoft is ramping up investments in the next wave of Africa’s artificial intelligence (AI) evolution, to support businesses to solve a myriad of challenges and unlock new opportunities. This was the word from Lillian Barnard, president of Microsoft Africa, delivering a keynote presentation yesterday at Microsoft’s AI, A New Era event in Johannesburg. Discussing the infinite economic […]
Read MoreToday’s Doodle celebrates iconic Nigerian footballer Rashidi Yekini, an accomplished forward nicknamed the “Goalsfather” for his ability to sneak shots by the keeper. On this day in 1963, he was born in Kaduna, Nigeria. The beginning of Yekini’s life was difficult as he faced homelessness and poverty. To make money, his first jobs were a […]
Read MoreNITDA AI Developers Training (NAIDT) programme, which started as NITDA Developers Group (NDG) Training, is a programme borne out of the need to accelerate the capacity of young Nigerians in Artificial Intelligence, which is one of the most highly demanded tech talent today. Through NAIDT with the support of volunteers from Google Developers Group (GDG), […]
Read MoreNigeria and China on the sidelines of the third Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing, has signed three memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) for new projects valued at $2 billion. The MoU was between China and the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and new Chinese partners The three Chinese companies that […]
Read MoreThe emergence of smart cities and special economic zones, coupled with government incentives, has created fertile ground for the data centre industry. Notable African projects include South Africa’s African Coastal Smart City and the planned Lanseria Smart City initiative, as well as Nigeria’s Eko Atlantic City, Vision City in Rwanda, Konza Techno City in Kenya […]
Read MoreSchneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has launched an industry-first guide to address new physical infrastructure design challenges for data centers to support the shift in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven workloads, setting the gold standard for AI-optimized data center design. Titled “The AI Disruption: Challenges and Guidance for Data […]
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