Telling Africa's Stories
Published on iAfrikan, TechNova and Top Farmer Kenya. I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no organic food. Do you? Listen, We will need to produce 70% more food than we do today to feed 2.3 billion people that will be added to the world’s population by 2050. And we will have to […]
Here’s What Robotic Process Automation Means And Why Large Banks Are Turning To It Recently in the Nigeria tech space, we celebrated Union Bank as the first Nigerian bank to incorporate Robotic Process Automation (RPA). In my excitement about it and other new digital banking innovations (check this one out) in Nigeria’s banking/tech sector, I sometimes forget that the mass […]
Originally on Business2Community. Conference calls and online meetings are great until one person drops off or the connectivity gets so bad you can only hear yourself. With most companies running distributed teams these days, conference calls and online meetings have become a necessary part of daily business. After these calls are finished comes the arduous […]
Published on TechWebSpace. The best managers aren’t the ones who only get results, but ones who develop and uplift their employees in the process. These managers care about their employees’ personal and career growth, and they invest financially and otherwise to make sure their employees get better each day. This way, as their company expands, […]
Published on TechWebSpace. This week, Google wowed the world with the features and developments it announced at IO 8, especially regarding the Google Assistant. What is more obvious than ever is Google’s emphasis on artificial intelligence. The voice assistant is improving in geometric proportions, becoming more human in its functionality. All of this brings to mind […]
As obvious and as simple as it sounds, the best way to be ready for the future is to prepare for it. A lot has been written about the future of the workplace. Most of it answering questions like: What will it look like? What skills will be most valuable? What roles will be in […]
Published on iAfrikan, Business2Community and TechNova. Meet Kiah. Kiah is a 25-year-old freelance writer and graphic designer who spends most of her time on her smartphone. She, like the average digital consumer, spends up to 3 hours in the day on social networking and instant messaging. Kiah loves watching videos on YouTube and scrolling through […]
Published on Business2Community. Care, Computers and Clean Energy If you’re thinking 2026 is still far away, stop and think again. It really is less than 10 years away, which means we are as close to 2010 as we are to 2026. Let this sink in; it will be useful as you read through this forecast. […]
Published on Business2Community. Why should you care about Machine Learning? What impact will it have on your personal life, business or community? In this 5-minute read, I attempt to simplify Machine Learning to the basics by differentiating between Supervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning. Let’s get started! Machine learning has become one of the most talked […]
Published on Business2Community. The popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has grown exponentially in recent years. According to Gartner, a research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500, Artificial Intelligence will be one of the top five investment priorities for more than 30 percent of Chief Information Officers by 2020, as they find […]
Published on EzineArticles. Warpath Strategy On The Workplace of the Future In 2013, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, Faculty at the University of Oxford, published a report titled ‘The Future of Employment’. The study presented in the report examined the susceptibility of 702 varied occupations to computerisation. According to their estimates, about 47% of […]
We truly can appreciate it, not fear it. Technology and its progressions have been in the news a lot lately for big, scary and negative reasons – Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal being the biggest of all. With new GDPR laws taking effect today (May 25, 2018) – even blissfully ignorant tech users are beginning to ask […]
Published on Business2Community. Artificial Intelligence (AI) used to be just a Sci-Fi concept, something that only existed in movies, books, and pop culture. But as technology developed and human capacity evolved with it, we have been able to design artificially intelligent machines, machines that mirror human behaviour and learn new concepts just the way we can. […]
Published on TechNova and Business2Community. Artificial intelligence is a broad term that covers three areas: deep learning, machine intelligence, and machine learning. Machine learning, the most common of the three, focuses on machines and the data they use to teach themselves. You feed the machine with data and the algorithms enable it to learn; becoming […]
Standard Bank has been in business for more than 150 years and, currently, has more than 1,200 branches and 100,000 employees around Africa. It has lived through and evolved with several waves and advancements in technology, yet remained relevant on the continent. One of the reasons for this is the bank’s willingness to embrace tools […]
Originally published on True Africa on March 15, 2016. . . . I’ve heard so many people say: ‘If I could make money off social media, my life would be perfect’ that I finally decided to write about it: yes, you can make money off social media. Take this example: my close friend, Kevwe Ogunje quit his […]
