The Head of Managed Services at Ericsson West and South East Africa, Sunaina Davet, has advised organisations to invest more in Artificial Intelligence and automation processes to achieve the new level of connectivity required for today’s digital transformation. According to Davet, “As organisations across the world are impacted by an unprecedented
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The National Information Technology Development Agency on Wednesday inaugurated a Virtual Learning Academy. The academy, expected to provide Nigerians in various sectors with the opportunity to access digital education and skills, was inaugurated during a virtual event. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, who inaugurated the academy, said already
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The IT department will fell many of the financial business implicatins of the COVID-19 crisis, and as such CIOs must take certain actions to protect or quarantine their IT organisations' cashflow, according to Gartner. The analyst firm has highlight eight specific actions chief information officers (CIOs) must take to ensue survival,
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As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Ministry of Information and Communications, Viet Nam have taken the difficult decision to postpone ITU Digital World 2020, the global tech event for government, industry and SMEs. The event will now take place as ITU Digital
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Driven by an innate curiosity, children pick up new skills as they explore the world and learn from their experience. Computers, by contrast, often get stuck when thrown into new environments. To get around this, engineers have tried encoding simple forms of curiosity into their algorithms with the hope that an
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The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with Microsoft Office, under its ATB Techsoft Solutions is training 18,000 secondary school teachers on digital literacy. The training tagged, 'Work-from-Home, Remote Teaching and Learning', which commenced on April 27, is aimed at mentoring, creating and sharing subject specific content with the teachers. Other objectives include
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The first generation of social home robots (like the first generation of many other new applications of technology) was not particularly successful. A series of high valuations followed by mediocre sales and reviews leading to several company shutdowns has made it much more challenging to develop in this space. And
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An asteroid, more than a mile wide, flew past Earth in a “close approach” The asteroid came within 3.9 million miles of the planet at 5:56 a.m. EDT, according to The Independent. NASA noted: “While this is known as a ‘close approach' by astronomers, it’s still very far away.” CNN reported the 1.2 mile wide object
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