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AFRICA is currently underserved in terms of Data Centre (DC) capacity, accounting for one per cent of the global total.

Telecommunications networks funded and built by China are taking over Africa's cyberspace, a dependence that analysts suggest puts Beijing in a position to exert political influence in some of the continent’s countries. Bulelani Jili, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies, told VOA Mandarin in a phone interview that “Huawei is…

It is no secret that Africa needs more data centres - the continent is still limited by lower internet penetration rates when compared to the world. Abigail Opiah reports

Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest data centre provider, is considering expanding to Nigeria and Kenya, CEO Jan Hnizdo reveals. The company could create data centres of between 1MW and 4MW in those countries, Hnizdo says from Johannesburg. Nigeria and Kenya have the liberalised telecoms sectors that data centres need, he adds. Growing numbers of African internet users make it harder to serve the continent’s needs via offshore data centres in Europe or the US. Local capacity means fa...

How Nigeria can leverage $500bn cloud market to push national e-ID card On By Prince Osuagwu Nigeria recently kicked off a quest to replace the plastic identity cards it issued to citizens from 2013 with a digital identity. Although the process of obtaining the identity is froth with several inconsistencies and has elicited criticisms, the digital identity is expected to save the country some foreign exchange, address national security, encourage access to financial services as well as build i...

Emma Okonji writes that the plan by the Nigerian government to replace plastic identity cards with digital cards will not only boost Nigeria’s digital transformation agenda, but will also be an opportunity to tap into the $500 billion cloud market The world is currently embarking on digital transformation, where emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoTs) will enhance digital connectivity of devices and the control of such digital devices by humans, d...