Obscure Technologies Blog
Making smart cities kinder with social services solutions
As the concurrent forces of rapid technology expansion and the spread of COVID-19 coincide, cities, governments and urban managers are looking for ways to harness technology not only to make cities smarter and safer, but also kinder and more socially responsible.
Fujitsu installs world’s fastest supercomputer technology at German university to explore origins of universe
Seven practices to ensure compliance with SA’s POPI Act
The latest country to enact stringent data privacy legislation is South Africa, with the new Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act or POPIA). POPI sets a new standard for the processing of South African constituents' personal information by public and private bodies within and outside of the country’s borders. Organisations doing business in South Africa need to ensure their information security practices are updated to meet POPI compliance.
Prof Vilakazi looks to build high-tech start-up ecosystem around Wits
Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, newly-appointed vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Witwatersrand. Photo credit: Wits University
Comstor focuses on small business, security with new initiatives
Demand for technology to decrypt SA drivers’ licences increases
During the COVID-19 lockdown, there has been an increased demand for technology solutions that make it easy to decrypt South African drivers’ licences.
Lockdown leads to long-term retail trend changes
Hands off Stella, ICT pressure group tells Parliament
Communications and digital technologies minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.
