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Digital Parks Africa (DPA), the data centre business in association with the Master Power Technologies Group, is expanding into West...
Vodafone Business and Cassava Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership to develop and enable advanced sovereign AI infrastructure in...
By Sarthak Rohal, Senior Vice President at In2IT Technologies. A few years ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was mostly an experiment....
Five civil society organisations — the Housing Assembly, Foxglove, Open Secrets, Research + Action and Planetary AI Collective (with legal...
As the global demand for high-capacity Artificial Intelligence compute accelerates, Africa stands at a pivotal threshold to establish sovereign AI...
Digital Realty, the cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre platform, has opened the 6.4-megawatt (MW) Nairobi Two Data Center (NBO2), expanding its...
WIOCC Group has confirmed the signing of a Shareholder Subscription Agreement (SSA) with Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and Vision International...
Africa Tech Festival returns to Cape Town from 17-19 November 2026 for its 29th edition, bringing together the people, ideas and...
IBTC DC Academy, South Africa’s specialist data centre training and certification programme, has announced that Master Power Technologies and Digital...
Read moreDetailsBy Danial Mausoof, Vice President of Mobile Infrastructure for MEA at Nokia For years, artificial intelligence has largely been associated...
Read moreDetailsBy Canninah Dladla, Cluster President for Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric In the largest year-over-year jump in AFCOM’s decade of...
Read moreDetailsBy Troye technical director Kurt Goodall Blaming the firewall when a cyberattack gets through is a little like blaming the...
Read moreDetailsAfrica Tech Festival will return to the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 16 to 19 November 2026, bringing together...
Read moreDetailsBy Avinash Gupta, Head of COE (Centre of Excellence) at In2IT Technologies For much of the past decade, cloud migration...
Read moreDetailsAcross Africa, data sovereignty is reshaping where information lives, how infrastructure is built, and who controls the flow of the...
Read moreDetailsThe Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, has unveiled the National Digital...
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