Author: ITPulse

  A new report by the Broadband Commission, an arm of the International Telecommunications Union has disclosed that 15 countries across the world currently have a benchmark broadband status in their national plan, insinuating these countries for the very first time have strategies in place for promoting the safe use of Artificial Intelligence. This year’s report titled ‘The State of Broadband: Broadband Catalyzing Sustainable Development’, highlights the critical role that broadband connectivity plays for the world’s people, from accessing online health services to receiving social security payments via mobile phones to receiving life-saving disaster warnings. According to Mr Houlin Zhao,…

  Pan-African bank, Ecobank has announced Tanzania based Nala as the winner of the 2018 Fintech Challenge. Nala emerged winner in the keenly contested challenge ahead of other ten finalists at a ceremony held at Ecobank’s headquarters in Lome, Togo. The remaining ten finanlists, including Nala have been officially inducted into the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship programme to explore commercial partnerships with the pan-African banking giant. While Nala was declared winner in its mobile money application that works offline, without an internet connection, Virtual Identity from South Africa and Wallet.ng from Nigeria were the first and second runners up. They won…

  By Collins Onuegbu The match of science and technology is a relentless one. And its transformative power has been profound. Most of the wealth created in the past fifty years in the developed world has been traced to Science and Technology. While we quickly notice the richest companies in the world like Apple, Google , Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and several others as the warriors of this match, their profound effect on productivity has created more wealth for the world than it created for the companies. They have also in the process completely transformed the world Nigeria has not really benefited…

The ATM as a Service concept, initiated by Nigeria’s leading System Integration Company; CWG Plc about two years ago, is gradually gaining traction, as it has signed supply deals with two financial institutions in Nigeria. According to CWG, these deals with the undisclosed financial institutions are a testament to the soundness of the concepts model and how it fits well into the innovativeness required to support banks in boosting the competitiveness for customer satisfaction with banking operations in Nigeria with respect to ATM services. “The gradual acceptance of the ATM as a Service (AaaS) concept is backed up with signed…

  Mobile Network Operators in Nigeria have come together to say though, they are not covered by the current guildlines on mobile money deployment, they are committed to helping achieve a further 20 percent target by 2020.  Meaning, 90 million Nigerians would have been covered by 2020 when added to the current financial exclusion levels, which stand at over 40 percent. The telcos, who met at the instance of a meeting facilitated by Yinka David-West, Academic Director and Senior Fellow at Lagos Business School, calls for level playing field for mobile network operators to be allowed to participate fully in…

  ESET, a cybersecurity research and a top European Union-based end point security company, has announced the launch of what it describes as future  enterprise security solutions. The solutions, according to the company are designed to provide the global enterprise sector with tools for prevention and management of cyber risks on a global scale. Speaking in Lagos at the launch of the products in Lagos, ESET’s Country Manager, Mr. Olufemi Ake, explained that the West African market now have access to upgrade or subscribe to the newly launched enterprise products and services. “These powerful new tools which fit into the…

The social media platforms were temporarily down in various parts of the world, including India. Facebook and its other social media platforms Instagram and WhatsApp temporarily went down late on Monday in the US, Canada and various other parts of the world, including in India. People took to Twitter, reporting about the outages across Facebook platforms which were later restored. Read also: We don’t save android users data without permission – Facebook Facebook blamed a networking issue for the temporary outages. “Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing or posting to various Facebook services,” Facebook…

  One of Nigeria’s telecommunications companies, Globacom has been adjudged the Best Women Enterprise Support (Company) in the country largely for its remarkable assistance of career women. Globacom bagged the award at the 2018 Nigerian Women Digital Agenda Summits and Awards (NWDAS), organised by the Centre for Cyber Awareness and Development, (CECAD). Announcing the award at the evnt in Lagos, the President of CECAD, Dr. Bayero Agabi,  opined that while telecoms operators “are the engine rooms for digital liberalisation, Globacom stands out in its support for women in ICT. The company recognises that women are critical to the digital development…

  The trio of Rt. Hon Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa and Rt. Hon. Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu (member House of Representatives, Onitsha North and South Federal Constituency), have been confirmed to deliver a special award speech and plenary conference address at this year’s SME Economy Conference & Award. In a statement signed in Lagos by Mr. Emmanuel Ezima, the project, quoted the guest speakers as saying they are passionate about the growth of SMEs in Nigeria and have committed themselves to building infrastructure and also evolving policies that will ensure that SMEs thrive and compete globally. The…