WHATS IN THE NEWS – 29 April 2022 – sacf

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS
29 April 2022

Open letter to President Ramaphosa

Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni refuses to recognise the community television sector as a stakeholder in the digital migration process, calling it ‘insignificant’ despite a collective viewership of more than eight million.

Sentech to drive streaming of new channels over set-top boxes as TV goes digital

The department is working to meet the 30 June digital migration … the government’s plan to expedite the digital TV migration process.

60 countries sign US promise for a democratic Internet — and South Africa isn’t one of them

The countries that signed the declaration have committed to protecting human rights, promoting the unhindered flow of information, protecting user privacy, and a set of rules for growing an international digital economy.

MTN boss says SA lost 15 years of development over spectrum delay

Speaking at a PSG Think Big webinar this week, Mupita said that MTN South Africa has 179 megahertz of multiband spectrum — after the recent spectrum auction — and “that’s the same as Zambia, which is a much smaller market … Markets like Nigeria and others have more spectrum.”

Why the internet of things should be top of your company’s priority list

Covid-19 drove an explosion in the uptake of the internet of things (IoT) among South African businesses. However, many businesses (and especially non-tech companies) use IoT for rudimentary applications, like turning lights and air conditioners on and off, or connecting movement sensors to cameras to reduce their energy bill.

South Africa looks to Silicon Valley for innovation inspiration

Fresh on the heels of touting innovation as a key enabler of SA’s economic prospects, minister Dr Blade Nzimande is on an official week-long visit to Silicon Valley in the US.

Nzimande is accompanied by senior officials of the higher education and training, and science and innovation departments, leaders of some of the science councils and vice-chancellors of some South African universities, reveals the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI).

MTN resolves market dominance case in Ghana

Following its classification as a significant market power (SMP) by Ghanaian authorities, MTN says it has made amendments and implemented remedies recommended by the country’s National Communications Authority (NCA).

Up to $545 million of Bitcoin will be lost in 2022

This is according to e-wallet recovery firm Crypto Asset Recovery, which explores how much Bitcoin is lost day to day, and provides an estimate of the amount of Bitcoin likely to be lost in 2022.

It explores the common ways people lose Bitcoin, such as forgetting passwords to crypto wallets and making a mistake in recording their seed phrases.

Investors fret that Microsoft’s $69-billion Activision deal will fail

Even if Activision Blizzard shareholders approve a US$69-billion sale to Microsoft on Thursday, Wall Street is betting that Biden antitrust enforcers could unravel one of the largest mergers in US history.

Vodacom Business to keep accelerating government’s digitalisation journey

The ICT company’s government contract has been extended based on its track record of implementing innovative digital solutions

South Africa power regulator sued over Karpowership licenses

South African activists sued the nation’s energy regulator over its award of generation licenses to Karpowership, threatening to further delay a program to add power to the grid to alleviate recurrent outages.

How can we reduce the carbon footprint of global computing?

Workshop hosted by MIT’s Climate and Sustainability Consortium, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing highlights how new approaches to computing can save energy and help the planet.

WHO publishes new report on how digital marketing lures women to breast-milk substitutes

“We can’t look at these issues [of advertising regulations] in isolation.” South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies…

New Omicron sub-variant driving Covid cases in South Africa

New omicron sublineages, discovered by South African scientists earlier this month, account for about 70% of new coronavirus cases in South Africa and the strains appear to be more infectious than predecessors.

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