By Dare OKOUDJOU When I founded MFS Africa more than a decade ago, I set a simple measure of success for the business. To facilitate access for my mom’s honey business in Porto-Novo, Benin, to collect payments from her customers from across the continent – and to make the process as easy as a phone call. When it comes to Africa and financial empowerment, we must acknowledge that consumers have the same wants and needs as consumers everywhere else in the world. Africans on the continent want to order the latest clothes, and electronics and have them delivered timeously. We…
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Meta Global Director joins the leading Ivorian e-commerce platform as it looks to scale operations across Africa and globally
Kwik aims to feature over 500 partner vehicles located in Ibadan on its platform in the next 12 months
Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, has commended a director of the Commission, Ismaila Adedigba, over a recent conferment on him, of the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM. Adedigba who is the Director of Research and Development at the Commission has for many years been a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and Fellow of the Association of West African Society for Communications and Administration (FSCA). Danbatta said the elevation of Adedigba is well deserved and commended his commitment and dedication to the ideals of his…
Meta, Facebook’s parent company in conjunction with Imisi 3D and Black Rhino has opened applications for training and hackathon in a programme dubbed AR/VR Africa Metathon. Digital TimesNG reports that the programme aims to support African talent-building solutions using XR (Extended Reality) a rapidly growing technology under which Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) and similar applications are found. Technologies such as AR and VR use computer-generated simulations to create a three-dimensional image or environment that’s very close to the real world. Currently, most VR environments are experienced through specially-designed headsets, while AR can be extended into…
Nokia Monday announced that it has successfully piloted its 4G and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing with mobile operator, Safaricom on its live commercial network. Digital TimesNG understands that this is the first-time 4G/5G network slicing has been successfully achieved in Africa. The trial utilized a multi-vendor network environment and included RAN, transport and core as well as software upgrades to a range of Nokia’s products and services. The announcement said the successful trial demonstrates that Safaricom is now poised to support new types of enterprise network services, including fast lane internet access and application slicing. In addition, Nokia is…
Tanzanian officials held an unusual press conference from 12,000 feet above sea level at the top of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, according to a report in TechTrendsKE. The fourth highest mountain in the world which is popular with climbers has inked its place in history and climbers can now post their escapades on social media from the top. Tanzania’s Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Nape Nnauye tweeted from the mountain last Tuesday: “Today … I am hoisting high-speed INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS (BROADBAND) on the ROOF OF AFRICA. Tourists can now communicate worldwide from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.” Today…
AMS-IX will be setting up an internet exchange at MDXi, the carrier-neutral Data Centre of MainOne in Lagos Nigeria
By Oluwatosin OYELADUN Evaluating and mitigating bias in AI models is crucial for ensuring fair and equitable outcomes in real-world applications. AI models cannot afford to be biased and as such bias in these models can arise from various sources like bias training data, algorithmic design, and implementation practices. These biases can show up in different ways such as data bias that occurs when training data used for an AI shows historical and societal biases. These models can learn and come up with affected results because of data marginalisation towards a certain group. Algorithm bias can also show up when…