TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zimbabwe govt moves to close digital gap

ZIMBABWE is making strides to close the digital divide between the country and the developed world by providing Internet access to marginalised areas, an official has said. Postal and Telecommunicatio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

StanChart rolls out retail digital banking

The country's oldest financial institution, Standard Chartered Bank Zimbabwe (StanChart), is planning to strengthen its franchise by rolling out its first digital banking platform for its retail custo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2019

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

'The future of industry is digital'

LISTED technology services firm, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe, has challenged manufacturing industries in the country to embrace digital platforms and modern ways of doing business to match global trends...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

EDUCATION

Zimbabwe to digitalise 3 500 schools

GOVERNMENT targets to fully digitalise about 3 500 schools countrywide within five years in an effort to enhance e-learning and quality education, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Professor Pa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2018

OPINION

Digital tax headache for small economies

Taxation of digital services like Facebook, e-Commerce, cloud services, video streaming, Twitter and Google advertising is a complex global problem.Countries like Zimbabwe, which are beneficiaries but...

By Dr Dennis Magaya | Published: 09 December 2018

EDUCATION

Bulawayo public schools go digital

PUBLIC schools in Bulawayo have pioneered digitalisation with about 80% of them having embraced the technology as part of the government's plan to digitalise all schools to improve the education syste...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 July 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zim missed digitalization deadline by 3 years

Zimbabwe failed to meet the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) deadline to migrate from analogue broadcasting to digital since June 2015.The digitalization project which is under the jurisdi...

By nextvafrica | Published: 03 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Digital platform for Zim businesswomen

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) has launched the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MWS) Digital Networking platform in Zimbabwe. The digital platform is part of a broader wo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt bolsters television programmes funding

GOVERNMENT has upped television production funding through the ongoing Zimbabwe Digital Broadcasting (ZimDigital) migration project.For long, local filmmakers have struggled due to lack of funding but...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018

OPINION

Why digital money makes sense

William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist compl...

By Nick Mangwana | Published: 19 June 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Close digital divide, says POTRAZ

THERE is a need to upscale the utility of wireless resources to close the digital divide in Zimbabwe and other African countries, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 June 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Barclays Zim invests $10m in digital migration

Following its acquisition by FMB Capital of Malawi, Barclays Bank Zimbabwe, says it is investing around $10 million in respect of the migration of its digital systems.Last year, FMB Capital acquired a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 May 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zimpost rebrands, goes digital

ZIMBABWE'S main postal services provider, Zimpost, has rebranded and unveiled new products and services along with a fresh logo.The new logo, products and services were unveiled at this year's Zimbabw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

CBZ embraces digital banking

CBZ Bank has joined its peers in discarding manual or paper transactions and adopting digital transacting.The bank has given its customers up to May 31 to register with its digital platforms — "CBZ ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt introduces digital cattle tracking system

THE Government has introduced a sophisticated digitalised cattle tracking system to curb stocktheft and quicken the process of cattle clearance in the country.The system, which is linked to the intern...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 May 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Local producers urged to feed Zimdigital project

THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, George Charamba, says the ongoing Zimdigital project presents an opportunity for local artists to show their cr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt releases $6m for digitisation project

GOVERNMENT has released $6 million to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to complete the digitisation project amid reports that most transmission sites countrywide are ready for migration fr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 April 2018

POLITICS

ZRP goes digital

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has embarked on a digitalisation drive that will see the computerisation of all its police stations and posts, police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 April 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

StanChart launches its first-ever digital bank in Africa

Standard Chartered Bank today announced the official launch of its digital bank in Côte d'Ivoire. This marks the Bank's first digital bank in Africa and the first-of-its-kind to open in Côte d'Ivoir...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 March 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

World's leading digital firms keen to invest in Zim

SOME of the world's top digital companies have shown interest in investing in Zimbabwe's Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector as the country continues to open its doors for business.A num...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 February 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bitcoin tumbles as digital coins resume slide

Hong Kong - Bitcoin slumped as much as 20%, giving more impetus to a January selloff in cryptocurrencies, after South Korea's finance minister repeated that the country may ban trading in one of the w...

By Bloomberg | Published: 16 January 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Masawara Insurance Group drives digital strategy

Insurance technology specialist SSP has signed a new deal with the Masawara Group of insurance companies. The deal has seen SSP Pure Insurance deployed across Botswana Insurance Company Limited, Lion ...

By Agencies | Published: 13 September 2017

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zim to miss digitalisation deadline

Zimbabwe is unlikely to meet the June 2015 international digital migration deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) due to lack of funding and a coordinated approach, a telecom...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2014

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Creditors stall TelOne digitalisation

The country's fixed telecommunications operator, TelOne, says it is failing to complete the digitalisation of its exchange centre in Gweru due to failure by its customers to settle debts. TelOne is ow...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 April 2014

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

TelOne digitalisation moving at a snail's pace

TELONE'S digitalisation of the Gweru Exchange Centre and the rollout of its fibre network is moving at a snail's pace due to failure by customers to settle their bills.The fixed telecommunications ope...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 April 2014
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