Trust still big issue holding back AI growth
*SAS floats Trustworthiness Index to measure business impact *As businesses still search for AI profit By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor As businesses increasingly turn to artificial intelligence, AI, to drive efficiency, innovation and faster decision-making, trust has emerged as one of the biggest issues threatening the technology’s ability to deliver greater business value. A new […]
‘4G mobile broadband can grow Africa’s GDP’
If Nigeria and indeed Africa harness the ubiquity of 4G mobile broadband, the continent’s Gross Domestic Projects, GDP among other things will greatly improve. This is the position of Huawei Global Vice President, Charles Ding, at the just concluded World Economic Forum held in Abuja.
‘Africa needs lots of ICT parks, incubation centres’
BY EMEKA AGINAM Participants at the just concluded Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition held in Lagos last week called on African governments to show greater commitment to the establishment of ICT parks, incubation centres, as well as frameworks and policies for seamless broadband connectivity. The forum which brought together highly cerebral ICT practitioners, stakeholders, regulatory […]
Solar lamps made from bike parts change lives in Mali
Mobile solar-powered streetlamps made from old bicycle parts are transforming lives in Mali, where villagers often work by night to escape the heat despite 90 per cent having no mains electricity.
Senate blasts Tech sector on insecurity
The Senate took a swipe at practitioners in the nation’s information and Communications Technology , ICT sector , over alleged non utilization of their expertise in the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgence in the country.
Broadband acceleration policies, proactive, says CT minister
Considering that infrastructural deficiency accounts for why technology has not optimally fast tracked Services and developments in governance, health, education and agricultural sectors among others, Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has declared that the policies her commission and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC had put in place for broadband acceleration, are spot on.
