ABB to showcase smart grid solutions at Enlit Africa 2026
12 May 2026
Egon Worthmann, Electrification Commercial Leader & ELDS Division Manager ABB South Africa
ABB South Africa will highlight its advanced electrification technologies designed to strengthen grid resilience across the continent at Enlit Africa 2026, taking place in Cape Town from 19 to 21 May. Visitors will be able to engage with ABB’s latest innovations at Stand E12, where the company will present solutions aligned to its theme, ‘Smart Solutions Enabling a Resilient African Grid’.
Enlit Africa is widely regarded as one of the continent’s leading gatherings for the power and energy sector, bringing together utilities, regulators, technology providers and industry stakeholders. The event serves as a platform to address critical challenges such as grid reliability, infrastructure modernisation and the integration of renewable energy, all of which are central to Africa’s evolving energy landscape.
Find out more GSMA Africa Policy Group Chair calls for urgent tax reforms to accelerate digital inclusion
12 May 2026
The Chief Regulatory Officer of Airtel Africa and Chair of GSMA Africa’s Policy Group, Mr Daddy Mukadi, has called on African governments to recognise telecommunications as a core economic pillar and to implement two specific tax reforms that could dramatically accelerate digital inclusion across the continent.
Speaking at the first edition of the États Généraux du Secteur des Postes et Télécommunications in Kinshasa, DRC – an event convened to support the development of a strategic roadmap for the country’s digital and telecommunications sector and attended by HE President Félix Tshisekedi – Mukadi, who’s also a member of the GSMA Global Policy Group, urged government and industry stakeholders to re-think the role of telecommunications in national development.
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Global Signal Exchange enables large scale criminal referral in West Africa, as new AI platform goes live
12 May 2026
Emily Taylor, CEO of OXIL.
UK Minister praises GSE's 'significant progress' as Industry Accord signed in Vienna names platform alongside Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft
The Global Signal Exchange (GSE) has published a case study showing how 87 email addresses and 4 URLs shared by the UK's National Crime Agency led to the identification and disruption of nearly 50,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 5,000 fake websites - the latest evidence of what its founders describe as the platform's multiplier effect.
Service as a service
12 May 2026
As digital tools proliferate, strategic differentiation collapses into imitation cycles where organisations appear different in branding but identical in execution, writes Viv Muthan Pr Eng, head of export sales and operations, RS.
Digitalisation has brought and continues to bring sweeping advancements in how companies go to market and how customers engage with brands.
Agentic AI is now poised to disrupt even these developments, creating a scramble among organisations anxious to invest in the “next big thing” for fear of being left behind. Yet history has shown that the more speed becomes associated with winning, the more companies blur the line between operational effectiveness and strategy, copying the same best practices in pursuit of advantage and compromising the very uniqueness they once stood for.
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