TCS - The TechCentral Show

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  • The TechCentral Show (TCS, for short) is a tech show produced by South Africa's leading technology news platform. It features interviews with newsmakers, ICT industry leaders and other interesting people.
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  • The Solly Malatsi interview - BEE, SOEs and Starlink

    The Solly Malatsi interview - BEE, SOEs and Starlink
    Oct 9 2024
    Communications minister Solly Malatsi, a DA MP and the first non-ANC politician to hold the key technology portfolio in the democratic era, has been in the job for three months – sufficient time to get a broad handle on the big issues.
    In this first interview with the TechCentral Show, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod asks Malatsi a range of questions about the sector, including his views on how he plans to address some of the more intractable problems in his inbox.
    The interview, which was recorded on Friday, 4 October – shortly before he announced he was issuing a policy direction to communications regulator Icasa that could see a big change to empowerment rules governing licensing in the sector – covers a wide range of topics, from Elon Musk’s Starlink to the ongoing feud between the SABC and Sentech.
    Other topics covered in the interview include:
    • The minister’s engagements with Starlink and the recent meeting in New York between Musk and President Cyril Ramaphosa;
    • His views on black economic empowerment and why his top priority is reducing the cost of data and ensuring more South Africans can connect affordably to the internet and online services;
    • His plan for private sector participation in the Post Office, and whether the company is really worth saving;
    • The war between the SABC and Sentech, and how it can be resolved;
    • Future funding models for the SABC and the future of TV licences in South Africa;
    • The problems at the State IT Agency, and what the focus should be of government’s central IT procurement and services provider;
    • The planned merger of Sentech and Broadband Infraco and why he believes it needs to happen;
    • Government’s 40.5% stake in Telkom and what should happen to it;
    • The road to digital migration and whether there is still a need for terrestrial television in 2024;
    • 2G and 3G switch-off in South Africa and whether this should be mandated by the government; and
    • The legislative programme for the department of communications & digital technologies.
    Don’t miss the interview!
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    43 m
  • Donald Valoyi: South African on-demand e-commerce pioneer

    Donald Valoyi: South African on-demand e-commerce pioneer
    Oct 2 2024
    Donald Valoyi saw the potential market for on-demand grocery delivery in South Africa early on, and his company Zulzi was a pioneer in the space.
    It even went on to help Shoprite Holdings launch the Checkers Sixty60 app.
    Zulzi was founded in 2013 as an “aggregator” of various shopping outlets to help consolidate online shopping for customers.
    Today the company provides support to Sixty60 and continues to operate as a separate entity through seven of its own “dark stores”, or warehouses.
    Zulzi founder Valoyi joins the TechCentral Show to chat about the company's journey, which began with his exit from corporate South Africa into entrepreneurship.
    He shares his views on the innovations reshaping the e-commerce sector and how South African businesses should equip themselves to handle competition from international players.
    Valoyi also chats about:
    • His entrepreneurial ambitions and why he chose e-commerce as his focus;
    • The early days of Zulzi, and how he built the business;
    • How Zulzi’s relationship with Shoprite and the Checkers Sixty60 app came about;
    • Why Valoyi believes the Post Office is key to driving e-commerce growth in South Africa;
    • Why the medical sector is ripe for e-commerce disruption; and
    • How technologies like artificial intelligence are changing the online shopping experience.
    Don’t miss the interview!
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    49 m
  • Bruce Mellado on the tech-led fight against air pollution in South Africa

    Bruce Mellado on the tech-led fight against air pollution in South Africa
    Sep 18 2024
    South African scientists have launched a cost-effective air-quality monitoring system built using internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies.
    Bruce Mellado, professor of particle physics and director of the Institute for Collider Particle Physics at Wits University, is one of the key people behind the new initiative, which is aimed at improving air quality in South Africa and eventually other markets around the world. He recently joined Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral Show to discuss the project.
    Mellado, who also director at the iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences – a unit of South Africa’s National Research Foundation – takes TechCentral through the devices, how they were built and how they’re being deployed in South Africa to detect reportable problems with air quality.
    “We decided to create, for the first time in South Africa, a cost-effective air-quality monitoring system based on sensors, IoT and AI. We have named this system Ai_r.,” Mellado wrote in a recent article for The Conversation and published on TechCentral.
    “Our team of 25 people includes more than 20 years of experience as particle physicists in working with sensors, communications and AI,” he wrote.
    “There are only 130 big air-quality measuring stations in South Africa. They only measure the air quality in the vicinity of the station. This is why we need cost-effective, dense networks made up of Ai_r systems set up all around these stations, to measure air quality in a much wider area. Our vision is to place tens of thousands of these devices all over South Africa.”
    In this episode of TCS, Mellado chats about:
    • The latest developments in particle physics, some of the work he is involved in and how a particle physicist got involved in an air-quality monitoring project;
    • Where the idea for the Ai_r device came from, its development and how it works;
    • The role of IoT and AI in the device, and why the development team made the technology choices it did;
    • The data that’s been collected so far, and what it can be used for;
    • How much the solution costs, and how you can buy one to monitor your air quality at home.
    Don’t miss a great conversation!
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    35 m

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