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Hyperscalers And The African cloud-space

Winnie Okello, P.E  featured, IT

Hyperscalers disrupting the cloud space in Africa

Morne Bekker, South African country manager and district manager for the SADC region at NetApp.

With a dominant position in the cloud and networks, hyperscalers are consequently becoming leaders in the services space. A study conducted by Cisco reveals that hyperscale data centres will represent 53 percent of all installed data centre servers by 2021.

According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2016–2021 White Paper, they will account for 85 percent of the public cloud server installed base in 2021 and 87 percent of public cloud workloads and compute instances.

Not only are hyperscaler disrupting the cloud space in …read more

How digital banking can impact Africa

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How digital banking can impact Africa

Jaydeep Gupta, Regional Head Retail Banking, Africa and Middle East from Standard Chartered Bank.

Mobile money can serve as a gateway to financial inclusion, it enhances the impact of international remittances on development. Digital platforms enable a significantly lower cost to serve and increased cross-selling of products in emerging markets while smartphone adoption and internet penetration are fuelling the expansion of e-commerce.

According to GSMA, mobile money has become the leading payment platform for a digital economy in emerging markets. In Africa, the spread of mobile money beyond is happening within Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2017, Western and Middle Africa were the …read more

Zambia granted $50M towards renewable energy programme

Winnie Okello, P.E  Environment, featured, IT

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Zambia granted $50M towards renewable energy programme

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $50 million framework financing for small-scale renewable energy projects in Zambia.

Due to recent droughts, Zambia has experienced a severe electricity supply deficit. In response to this issue, the Zambian government launched the Renewable Energy Feed-in-Tariff (REFiT) policy in 2017 that will allow better investments in small-scale renewable projects.

Primarily made up of solar PV, the aim of the Framework is to finance 100MW of renewable energy projects and are to be selected under the GETFiT Zambia Programme.

According to a report by ESI Africa, this will be the first …read more

Three startups selected for DEMO Africa innovation tour Ghana

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Three startups selected for DEMO Africa innovation tour Ghana

Three startups selected for DEMO Africa innovation tour Ghana.

DEMO Africa partnered with MEST Africa in making the Ghana, Accra Innovation Tour a success. Three startups – Complete Farmer, Devless and RedBird were selected from a group of 9 startups that pitched for a chance to vie for the West Africa representative at the DEMO Africa launch event in Morocco, this October.

Complete Farmer is an Agritech startup which provides remarkable and innovative agribusiness solutions to clients to enhance productivity, increase profitability and help them gain competitive advantage across the agricultural value chain. DevLess provides an easy to use …read more

GameMine partners African mobile game development company

Winnie Okello, P.E  featured, IT

GameMine partners African mobile game development company

GameMine partners African mobile game development company.

GameMine, a US-based mobile game publisher, has announced it is partnering with African mobile game development company, ChopUp, to distribute the company’s African-themed mobile games worldwide.

“As GameMine continues to expand and refine our mobile game catalog, we are excited to be able to offer localized content to our subscribers,” says Daniel Starr, the CEO of GameMine. “We have a very strong presence in Africa and I’m confident ChopUp’s games will really resonate with our African subscribers.”

The partnership adds ChopUp’s selection of culturally-focused mobile games to GameMine’s already diverse library of titles, making them …read more