Back when I was doing IT support, there was a running joke on the helpdesk: “one day they’ll replace us with a chatbot.” We said it half-laughing, half-nervously, usually right after resetting someone’s password for the third time that week. Nobody actually believed it. Then automation started eating the easy tickets password resets, software installs,…
When installing wireless networks for hotels, offices, homes and other client environments, there is rarely a single wireless device that can do everything perfectly. Sometimes the priority is long-distance connectivity. Sometimes it is broad Wi-Fi coverage around a building. Sometimes the challenge is connecting two buildings without running cable. And sometimes, the most important factor…
Picture this One card. Your food subsidy, your ID verification, your civic services all funneled through a single digital channel. Sounds efficient. Sounds like the future. Now ask the question nobody in the press release wants to answer: what happens when that one card goes down? Egypt is accelerating the rollout of its Government Services…
There’s a graveyard of foreign software platforms in Africa. Not the dramatic kind with tombstones, the quiet kind, where the app just stops getting used, the subscription lapses, and nobody notices until finance asks why they’re still paying for it. Knowlix AI just walked into that graveyard’s front gate. Confidently in 29 countries at once….
Picture this: a woman living in the rural parts of the Republic of Congo builds a small business selling goods online. She’s smart, she’s driven, she’s got a product people want. But she’s stuck: no smartphone budget, no digital literacy training nearby, and a banking system that doesn’t quite know what to do with her….
There’s a question nobody at Telkom or even most Telecom providers may want to answer out loud: what’s the point of fibre to every house if nobody in that house knows what to do with it? I’ve sat in enough digital transformation rollouts to know this pattern by heart. You spend months, sometimes years, getting…
In a previous article, I wrote about the five best power banks that could survive Africa’s grid. You can check the article via this link Blackout-proof your hustle with 5 power banks tough enough to survive Africa’s grid (And the World Cup) – Origin Africa 365. Power banks handle your phone and all those USB…
Honestly, since the World Cup kick-started, I’ve missed a lot of matches, and I imagine that it’s the same story with hundreds and thousands within my community. Electricity remains a major problem for Africans. Personally, since I’m always out, I prefer to follow up with matches on my portable devices rather than a regular TV,…
Let me tell you something about corporate speak. After years of reading IT vendor proposals, infrastructure RFPs, and energy company procurement documents, I’ve developed a very specific skill: translating beautiful, vague language into actual intentions.So when PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino sat down with Japanese publication Famitsu and said Sony plans to leverage technologies that can…
I wrote this post almost five years ago using Blogger, and I haven’t checked it for some years till last week when I came across it on Pinterest. Imagine how surprised I was to see it had garnered over fifty thousand reads with more than 70 comments, then it was titled Web Design made Easy…
