In the last decade, Africa has blazed a trail in its adoption of financial technology (fintech), as it has provided ways to reach previously unserved populations and leapfrog generations of infrastructure. In the US, you might be able to pay with a chip and PIN if you’re lucky. In South Africa, you can open an account with a selfie.

Features

Adam Oxford

The state of SA’s IT security, according to ITWeb/VMware CISO survey

How are South African corporates dealing with the increasing challenges of cyber security? ITWeb’s annual survey, sponsored by VMware, provides some answers.

Enterprise

Adam Oxford

Modernising the mines

Eyes are on South Africa’s mining industry as it works to embrace technological change. What can the IT sector do to help?

Business

Adam Oxford

A buyers' market

South Africa's competitive retail sector might not be following the same footsteps as US and Europe, but it's taking its own unique path when it comes to technology adoption.

Retail

Adam Oxford

Leveraging the intelligent edge

It's the big new buzzword in IoT, but how mature is the `intelligent edge'? Brainstorm convened a special roundtable to find out.

Internet of things

Adam Oxford

Totally changeable

The flexibility of software-defined networking (SDN) is what enables some of the world's biggest companies to be innovative and scale their services to reach millions of people. In South Africa, there have been a lot of announcements around SDN and its big brother, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), in the last few months. Are local firms taking advantage of the opportunities it provides?

SDN

Adam Oxford