Author: Charissa Swanepoel
Cairo: TECHzMagazine – News Desk The Standard Chartered Foundation has officially launched the second edition of its Women in Tech Accelerator in Egypt, partnering with local entrepreneurship platform Entlaq and global impact investor Village Capital. Designed to foster inclusive economic growth, the initiative targets persistent challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in the region. The 2026 program will select 12 technology-enabled, women-led startups that have already achieved market validation and are preparing to scale. Entlaq will deliver the program locally, drawing on its extensive expertise in entrepreneurship research and ecosystem building. Participants will undergo a structured accelerator curriculum focusing on investment…
Santa Clara: TECHzMagazine – News Desk On August 22, 2026, NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks forged a multi-year global strategic partnership targeting $1 billion in joint business by 2029. The collaboration, marking Palo Alto Networks’ first strategic alliance of its kind with a global systems integrator, unites its AI-powered cybersecurity platforms and Unit 42 threat intelligence with NTT DATA’s deep consulting, engineering, and managed services capabilities. The alliance aims to help enterprises confidently adopt AI, modernize cyber defenses, simplify complex environments, and establish cyber resilience. To fuel this initiative, NTT DATA will dedicate a force of more than 2,000…
Nairobi: TECHzMagazine – News Desk The high-level talks, hosted in Nairobi, were led by William Kabogo Gitau, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy, and an IN Groupe delegation headed by Celine Gouveia, Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Government Programmes. The proposed authentication platform aims to transform how Kenyan citizens interact with both public and private sector services. By utilizing a single, trusted digital identity, the system is designed to eliminate the friction of repeated verifications and the unnecessary redundant submission of personal data. “We agreed to deepen technical and policy collaboration…
Kigali: TECHzMagazine – News Desk RSwitch has officially launched its digital financial inclusion campaign, #TwagiyeKashiresi, taking digital finance directly to the people. In a targeted two-day outreach effort, the campaign engaged residents and local businesses in the specific Kigali communities of Nyabugogo and Gisozi Agakiriro, marking a significant push toward a cashless economy in Rwanda’s capital. Rather than limiting conversations about digital finance to formal institutions, the initiative prioritizes on-the-ground engagement in the exact locations where daily, high-volume transactions occur. During the outreach, the focus was on practical, hands-on education, providing attendees with live demonstrations of digital payment processes, interactive…
Kenya: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Kenya’s ambitions to build Africa’s leading smart city took a monumental leap forward as the government secured a $284.1 million (approximately Ksh 37.2 billion) financing agreement with the Republic of Korea. The deal, struck with the Korea Eximbank (KEXIM), paves the way for the establishment of the state-of-the-art Konza Digital Media City (DMC) at Konza Technopolis. The agreement was officially signed on the sidelines of the inaugural Korea-Africa Summit held in Goyang, near Seoul. Kenya’s Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Korir Sing’Oei, and KEXIM Executive Director Hwang Kiyeon executed the funding agreement in the presence…
Dar es Salaam: TECHzMagazine – News Desk In a major step toward a cashless economy and digital inclusion in the education sector, Airtel Money Tanzania has successfully expanded its “School Pay” service to over 800 schools across 16 regions. Announced in Dar es Salaam, the initiative digitizes the traditional school fee collection process, simplifying financial management for educational institutions while easing the burden on parents. Originally launched with a focus on private schools, Airtel Money School Pay is more than just a payment channel. The platform integrates Airtel Money’s mobile payment technology directly into a comprehensive school management system. Airtel…
Cairo: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Commercial International Bank – Egypt (CIB) has officially received preliminary approval from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to establish yomo, a new standalone digital bank headquartered in Cairo. This milestone aligns with the comprehensive digital banking framework introduced by Egypt in 2023, marking a significant step toward modernizing the nation’s banking sector and expanding financial accessibility. CIB is backing the venture with a substantial $300 million investment into yomo Holding’s digital banking platform. The platform is slated to be deployed first in Egypt as an independently licensed, digitally native financial institution. The new entity…
San Jose: TECHzMagazine – News Desk In a move aimed at accelerating enterprise AI adoption without compromising data control, Cloudera has unveiled Cloudera Anywhere Cloud™. This new hybrid data and AI platform is designed to let organizations build, deploy, and scale production-grade AI applications seamlessly across multi-cloud, sovereign infrastructure, and on-premises environments. According to Cloudera, the platform promises to bring “cloud-native agility” directly to enterprise data wherever it resides, addressing the operational hurdles that keep many AI initiatives stuck in the experimental phase. As companies rush to operationalize artificial intelligence, they are frequently hitting infrastructure walls. According to recent Cloudera…
Kikuyu: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Kenya’s ambitious plan to decentralize its digital economy took a major leap forward today with the groundbreaking of the Kikuyu Jitume Centre of Excellence in Kiambu County. The new hub is a cornerstone of the government’s nationwide strategy to build digital capacity beyond Nairobi, aiming to establish 100 fully equipped digital innovation centers across all 47 counties. The groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Kikuyu MP and National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung’wah, alongside officials from the Technopolis Development Authority and the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy. Unlike foundational digital access points,…
San Francisco: TECHzMagazine – News Desk Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, has officially launched the Hexnode Context Layer, an intelligence architecture designed to drive Agentic AI capabilities in endpoint management. Integrated with Hexnode Genie AI, the conversational interface for IT administrators, this new layer translates natural-language inputs into actionable device management workflows. Operating as an orchestration bridge between Genie AI and the broader Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) platform, the Context Layer leverages live fleet data to route conversational requests to specialized agents. These intelligent agents autonomously handle distinct categories of endpoint management, including device discovery and telemetry, identity…