{"id":75773,"date":"2025-07-30T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=75773"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:52:35","slug":"the-transformative-impact-of-technology-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2025\/07\/30\/the-transformative-impact-of-technology-on-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The transformative impact of technology on Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-wistia-inc wp-block-embed-wistia-inc\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Intelligent Discussions: The transformative impact of technology on the African continent Video\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/z9igmk7g9j?dnt=1&#038;seo=false&#038;web_component=true#?secret=xsqjikBTxg\" data-secret=\"xsqjikBTxg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lynchpin Media hosted a dynamic roundtable discussion on the technological development of the African continent in Johannesburg, South Africa, exploring the key challenges faced across the continent, why Africa is still struggling to progress and potential solutions to solve these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard contributions from <strong>Dr. Stanley Mpofu<\/strong>, CIO, University of Witwatersrand; <strong>Anathi Mtila<\/strong>, Manager, Cyber Defense, MTN Group South Africa;<strong> Zethu Lubisi<\/strong>, Acting ICT Manager: Planning and Governance, University of Witwatersrand; <strong>Trishen Moodley<\/strong>, Executive Head: Information Technology, MAST; <strong>Dr. Makaziwe Makamba<\/strong>, Director for Digital Transformation, NSG; and <strong>David Reynders<\/strong>, CTO, Merchant Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear their insights in this video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynchpin Media hosted a dynamic roundtable discussion on the technological development of the African continent in Johannesburg, South Africa, exploring the key challenges faced across the continent, why Africa is still struggling to progress and potential solutions to solve these issues. We heard contributions from Dr. Stanley Mpofu, CIO, University of Witwatersrand; Anathi Mtila, Manager, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":75774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17681,15417,14],"tags":[388,389,1398,453,938],"class_list":["post-75773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-cybersecurity","category-video","tag-cybersecurity","tag-digital-transformation","tag-public-sector","tag-south-africa","tag-telecom"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75781,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773\/revisions\/75781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}