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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so. Nigeria’s mobile money landscape, however, has been dominated by banks and other financial services companies. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. They already had a technical plan in place, and I helped them find the right size and structure of an accompanying data governance program.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

In this post we provide some of Marc’s views around the nature of government services in the near future. Gourley: In the near future of 2030, do you have thoughts on services that government currently delivers to citizens that will be done better or perhaps rendered obsolete because of new personal computing technologies?

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

“Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. The new ads were created very quickly,” says Banks. So far, Castillo has been publishing her work with open-source licenses.

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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). However, the ICE contract would appear to comply with Clearview’s earlier pledge.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

It definitely is a challenge,” says Greg Beltzer, head of technology for the US wealth management arm of Royal Bank of Canada. Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

This year, Singapore-based Whampoa Group also selected Bahrain as the HQ location for its new digital bank. Bahrain also became the first country in the region to implement a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud system in the government sector to bolster business continuity, availability of government systems, as well as reduce operational costs.

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