Over the past two years, the African continent has shown great digital resilience by bringing some services online to comply with pandemic-related regulations. This increasing digitization of administrative, social, and economic services has in parallel required a step-up in digital…
Mobile penetration, and therefore the number of SIM cards, keeps on increasing in Africa. According to the GSMA, the numbers of unique mobile subscribers and of SIM connections were 495 and 930 million respectively in 2020, and are forecast to…
Covid-19 created a need for physical distancing, which fueled a surge in the demand for systems supporting remote living. As a result, only two months into the pandemic, digital transformation had already advanced by two years. The pandemic, therefore, caused…
This year, business is back to normal at the Mobile World Congress (MWC)! After being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event had taken place in a hybrid form the following year.…
An increasing number of Africans are enjoying access to formal financial services, thanks to the growing availability of digital services such as Mobile Money. According to the International Financial Corporation (IFC), there are now more digital financial services deployments in…
The increased use of online services, which the pandemic accentuated, begs the following question: How safe are the users’ data? Data privacy and security are legitimate concerns for the users and providers of digital services alike. Indeed, as these services…
2021 has been yet another eventful year for the digital sector as a whole. It was characterized by further expansion and innovation despite, but also as a result of, the pandemic-related challenges. At GVG, as digital technology experts, we are…
Flashback to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. What started as a health crisis quickly morphed into a financial one. The ICT sector was almost immediately affected by an interruption of the technology supply chain and by the cancellation of…
GVG has been nominated Technology Company of the Year by Africa Tech Week during an awards ceremony held digitally last week. As a pioneer developer of RegTech, with more than 20 years of solid experience in digital solutions for governments,…
Interoperability has been flagged as a significant factor in the development of the cashless economy and of financial inclusion. Indeed, among many other benefits, it can help reduce the cost of incoming and outgoing remittances. This would help promote this…
