The state-owned backhaul connectivity provider enters into a partnership with ItakaneICT to facilitate cashless money services in rural and disadvantaged communities.
Syntech is facilitating large-scale bulk imports of masks to assist the private sector and the National Department of Health.
As COVID-19 escalates, more technologically-driven healthcare solutions are preferred, with companies releasing telemedicine solutions to help ease the situation.
Collaboration, clarity and coherence are required from all stakeholders, as ICT is the primary tool to enable and support the kind of lockdown currently in force.
Microsoft SA, YES to equip 300 000 youth with AI skills
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Telkom partners with the CSIR and Institute of Communicable Diseases to develop a coronavirus track and trace system.
PSICT Forum - Digital literacy and leadership for public service excellence
The industry seeks legal counsel over Eskom’s plan to curtail operational wind farms, with the utility citing reduced demand in relation to COVID-19.
PPPs to fast-track digital transformation
Hosted in partnership with ITWeb Brainstorm and BCX, a Public Sector in ICT Forum event took place at Protea Fire & Ice in Menlyn on 17 August. Attendees could benchmark with industry leaders who have entered successful PPPs and engage in meaningful conversation to foster change in the digital journey of both the public and private sector. #ppp #digitaltransformation #bcx
This week’s National Tender Bulletin sees the State IT Agency making the most of new budgets.
The companies unveil an online platform that makes it possible for patients to access a professional without having to travel to the healthcare facility.
It’s taken over a year, but the merger of the communications and telecoms ministries is finally effective, starting today.
The ambitious provincial cyber security project has been incurring irregular expenditure unabated over the last four years.
SA’s third biggest mobile operator will, by 1 May, launch a free lifeline package capped at 250KB per day.
The health minister refutes claims that 5G technology played a role in the conception or spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.