Author: Charissa Swanepoel
Luasaka: TECHzMagazine – News Desk The Zambian Government is aggressively intensifying its digital transformation efforts in rural areas through a series of robust information and communication technology (ICT) interventions. Driven by the SMART Zambia Institute, this nationwide initiative aims to improve efficiency, accountability, and communication in public service delivery, ensuring that remote communities are fully integrated into the country’s digital economy. The SMART Zambia Northern Provincial ICT Unit has recently spearheaded targeted digital upgrades across the Mpulungu, Mbala, and Lupososhi districts to modernize government human resource systems and foundational ICT infrastructure. Government employees are being actively onboarded onto the E-Payslip…
Port Harcourt: TECHzMagazine – News Desk The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has called on public institutions to reduce their dependence on off-the-shelf software and instead prioritise homegrown digital solutions tailored to address Nigeria’s unique operational needs. Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the 66th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Inuwa delivered his remarks during a session themed “Nigeria First, Procurement Last: How E-commerce is Rewriting Contracts”. He emphasised that modernising public procurement must extend beyond mere administrative processes. Instead, he described it as a critical mechanism for…
Damascus: TECHzMagazine – News Desk In a major step toward Syria’s global economic reintegration, Visa successfully tested its first live international card transaction in Damascus. Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa completed the electronic restaurant payment in the presence of Central Bank Governor Mohammed Safwat Raslan. The milestone was achieved in partnership with the Central Bank, Fransabank Lebanon, and payment processor Paymera. Leila Serhan, Visa’s Senior Vice President for the region, noted the test paves the way for international visitors to use their cards within legal frameworks. Governor Raslan and Paymera CEO Michel Kattouah both emphasized the transaction as a crucial modernization…
Amman: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Orange Jordan and Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) have officially renewed their strategic training cooperation agreement for an additional three years, extending their partnership through the end of 2029. The renewed collaboration aims to continue building essential digital skills among youth, reflecting a shared vision to enhance youth readiness for the future demands of the tech labor market. Under this extended agreement, PSUT will continue to accredit the certificates issued by the Orange Digital Center’s Coding Academy, recognized as the first of its kind in the Middle East. The Coding Academy’s operational model focuses…
Barcelona: TECHz – News desk Egyptian airline becomes a new ‘Global Partner’ for the Club and the ‘Exclusive Official Airline’ for the men’s football first team, the basketball team and the handball team. The airline EGYPTAIR has signed an agreement to become an FC Barcelona ‘Global Partner’ up to the 2028/29 season. The agreement sees the Egyptian company become the ‘Exclusive Official Airline’ for the men’s football first team, the basketball team and the handball team. Furthermore, the handball team jersey will feature the EGYPTAIR logo on the front during games. The agreement forms part of EGYPTAIR’s plan to expand…
Sharjah: TECHzMagazine – News desk The Sharjah conglomerate has launched DIWAN, its own private, group-wide AI assistant, now live for employees across the Group and delivered with technology partner Magure. DIWAN runs on a privately deployed model within the Group’s own cloud environment, designed so that sensitive data stays inside the Group’s infrastructure. Bukhatir Group, one of the UAE’s oldest and most diversified business houses, and Magure, a UAE-headquartered enterprise AI company, today announced a strategic partnership to embed AI across the Group’s businesses, beginning with a milestone already achieved: DIWAN, a secure enterprise AI assistant, is now live in…
Oman: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Otech, the technology arm of Omantel, has forged a strategic partnership with Omani AI startup Remedy to launch RISE Talent, an advanced artificial intelligence-powered enterprise platform. Announced on August 22, 2026, this collaboration focuses on leveraging AI to enhance strategic planning, enterprise performance management, and human capital management across organizations. The RISE Talent platform is designed to bridge the gap between corporate strategy and workforce development. It uses Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to cascade strategic goals across different organizational levels. Rather than treating talent processes as isolated functions, the AI system integrates seamlessly across…
Cape Town: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Cape Town-based artificial intelligence startup Verascient has successfully secured $1.2 million (approximately R19.2 million to R19.5 million) in its inaugural funding round. Founded by South African entrepreneurs Keagan Stokoe and Emile Ferreira, the startup aims to tackle the widespread knowledge gap that causes enterprise AI implementations to fail. The oversubscribed seed round was led by Founder Collective, with participation from Andrena Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise, Summit Ventures, and several angel investors. As companies race to implement artificial intelligence, many initiatives fall short because generic AI tools do not understand the specific, operational reality of individual…
London: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Revolut has officially announced the launch of Revolut Research, a specialized unit within its Artificial Intelligence department designed to engineer native machine learning architectures. Moving away from competitors who bolt on existing third-party AI models, the global financial platform is heavily investing in in-house development to advance AI-powered financial services on a global scale. At the center of this initiative is PRAGMA, a proprietary foundation model developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. Revolut is rebuilding its entire AI stack around this unified behavioral intelligence layer to decode complex financial behaviors in real time. Early deployments on…
Cairo: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Egypt has firmly positioned itself as a heavyweight in the global tech delivery market, with its outsourcing and offshoring sector generating a record $5.2 billion in 2025. Fueled by a massive surge in artificial intelligence adoption, robust infrastructure investments, and a highly skilled talent pool, the country’s information and communications technology sector continues to be its fastest-growing industry. The $5.2 billion generated from outsourcing is the cornerstone of a broader national milestone, as Egypt logged a total of $7.4 billion in digital exports last year. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has set aggressive…