The global spending on enterprise software reached an all-time high of US$458bn in 2019, translating to a drop of about 6.98 per cent when compared to the projected figures for 2020
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Banking sector urged to go digital to build sustainable growth post COVID-19
Bankers from sub-Saharan Africa and China who attended the Huawei sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services Industry Online Summit 2020 agree that digitisation of the sector will give it resilience against the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable sustained growth in the post COVID era
MainOne to deliver connectivity services into Burkina Faso
MainOne, West Africa’s connectivity and data centre solution provider, has been chosen by the State of Burkina Faso, backed by the World Bank, to provide bulk connectivity services to a consortium of operators through the PAV-Burkina Cooperative for the next three years
Pipedrive teams up with Ambitious Africa initiative to develop entrepreneurship
Sales CRM Pipedrive has partnered with the project Ambitious Africa, which aims to empower collaborative projects in the fields of education, entrepreneurship and entertainment between Africa and the Nordics
African leaders endorse plan to build climate resilience into recovery from COVID-19
Around 54 leaders from the African Adaptation Initiative, championed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, have endorsed the policy recommendations outlined in the brief “Integrated Responses to Building Climate and Pandemic Resilience in Africa”