Africa is home to 18% of the world’s people but holds less than 1% of global data centre capacity, and only about 40% of its population is online. That gap in compute, connectivity, and digital skills is what a new pan-African research call wants to close.
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African governments are racing to digitise public services, connect institutions and modernise administration. However, many e-government projects still end in delay, underperformance, budget overruns or abandonment. The problem, a new review argues, is not simply weak technology; it is the disconnect between how digital projects are formally governed and the political, institutional and operational conditions…
Challenging the prevailing narratives of a ‘rural cloud’, 97.5% of data centers in the USA are situated in cities. Data center siting is driven by local infrastructure and fossil-fuel industrial legacy, which poses substantial challenges to urban livability.
Lagos State is positioning itself as Africa’s leading tourism and events destination through sustained investments in transport infrastructure, urban renewal, waterfront development and digital connectivity aimed at attracting private capital into the sector, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said.
The NATO Summit in Ankara ended with a short but consequential declaration. Alongside commitments to develop a wide range of capabilities—such as drones, a warfighting cloud and AI models—the allies pledged to make them interoperable.
Indian citizens can now bypass traditional visa sticker paperwork through a new digital approval system, reducing wait times to as little as 24 hours.
Africa’s digital future will take centre stage at the fourth edition of TechCabal’s Moonshot conference, where leading figures from the technology, finance and regulatory sectors will join founders, investors and policymakers to explore the continent’s next phase of digital growth.
Africa Prudential Plc, a provider of share registration services and capital market solutions, has reported another strong half‑year performance, demonstrating corporate governance, resilience and the effectiveness of its growth strategy despite an evolving macroeconomic environment.
Competition law experts Alex Stratakis, Tadeusz Gielas and Ian Hastings of Pinsent Masons said the judgments come as the DMA moves beyond its initial implementation phase into a period increasingly shaped by enforcement decisions, regulatory dialogue, and litigation. The rulings build on two earlier General Court judgments involving the DMA concerning Bytedance, the company behind TikTok.
On Thursday, July 23, the International Conference Centre in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, was filled with the familiar language of telecommunications—spectrum, standards, cybersecurity, satellite networks—but underneath the technical vocabulary was something much larger unfolding.
