E-Business
Flexenclosure Opens Office for Southern Africa
Flexenclosure, a specialist developer of intelligent power management systems and pre-fabricated data centres for the ICT industry, has opened a new office in Maputo, Mozambique to serve its growing number of customers in southern Africa.
The new office, which is located on Avenida Ahmed Sekou Touré in the central district of Mozambique’s capital Maputo, will cover several countries in southern and central Africa: Angola, Botswana, Cape Verde, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and São Tomé e Príncipe.
“With our sustainable and energy efficient power solutions, and flexible and fast-to-deploy data centre solutions, we are solving exactly the kind of infrastructure challenges that mobile operators and tower companies face in emerging markets like Africa,” said David King, CEO, Flexenclosure.
“Our new office in Mozambique will allow us to better serve our growing customer base in southern Africa. We can work with them in real time and respond faster to support requests.”
Sixth new office in a year to support growing customer base
Flexenclosure is expanding its sales organisation across the globe to firmly establish its presence in all markets where its eSite and eCentre solutions can bring benefits to its customers.
Flexenclosure opened five new offices in 2012: in Cyberjaya, Malaysia; Gurgaon, India; Lagos, Nigeria; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Dubai, UAE.
“With a data boom underway in Africa combined with grid power that is unreliable or unavailable in many places, the existing telecom infrastructure faces enormous challenges,” said David King.
“Flexenclosure’s prefabricated and modular data center solution, eCentre, and its green power management system, have been developed and perfected to overcome precisely those challenges. We are experiencing a rapidly growing interest for our solutions.”
Flexenclosure recently received large eCentre orders from MTN in Ivory Coast and from Vodacom in Mozambique, for new data centres to support their on-going network expansion. Both are to be installed early next year and Flexenclosure has also recently deployed a roof top eCentre for Vodacom to house mission critical data and telecom equipment.
Tissari da Costa new Regional Sales Director for Southern Africa
The new office in Maputo will be managed by Carita Tissari da Costa as Flexenclosure’s new Regional Sales Director for southern Africa and PALOP (a group of Portuguese-speaking African countries). Carita Tissari da Costa has a decade of experience in the telecommunications industry spanning project management, new product and service development, property and data centres.
Previously she ran the project management and business development department at mcel, and most recently she was the Executive Head of property and business development at Vodacom Mozambique. Carita Tissari da Costa holds an honours dual-degree in European Business.
“Amidst strong economic and mobile telecom growth, many countries in the Southern Africa region are faced with infrastructure challenges that impede the deployment of state-of-the-art data centres and reduction of energy costs of telecom sites,” said Tissari da Costa.
“Flexenclosure has developed turnkey solutions that directly address these pain points, and the opening of the office in Maputo establishes our permanent local presence in the region.”
“There are thousands of telecom sites without a reliable grid connection which translates into huge energy costs for operators and tower companies when sites are powered with diesel generators. Key concerns are grid availability, reliability and how to cost efficiently power both existing sites as well as new sites in more rural areas. With ever growing telecom and banking markets, the next billion customers will be from rural areas, where energy cost saving solutions from Flexenclosure will enable cost effective service provision to these users.”
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has commenced a forensic investigation into the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Lotus Bank and Hackerbella Ltd over alleged violations of data protection laws involving students’ personal information.
The investigation follows public complaints alleging that students’ personal data were used to open bank accounts without a lawful basis.
Dr Vincent Olatunji, national commissioner and chief executive officer of the NDPC, directed the investigation team to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the circumstances surrounding the collection, processing, use and disclosure of the affected students’ personal data.
The investigation will also determine the respective roles and responsibilities of UNILAG, Lotus Bank and Hackerbella in the alleged processing of the data.
According to the Commission, the investigation will assess the data protection compliance obligations of the parties under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDP Act), as well as potential risks posed to the rights and freedoms of the affected data subjects.
The NDPC said the probe would cover several areas, including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), the lawfulness and transparency of credit scoring or profiling activities, and the use of automated decision-making systems.
It will also examine the adequacy of privacy notices, data-sharing arrangements, lawful bases for processing, data minimisation and purpose limitation.
Other areas include data retention policies and the adequacy of technical and organisational measures put in place to safeguard the rights and personal data of affected students.
The Commission reiterated that institutions entrusted with the personal data of students, staff and other members of their communities have a heightened responsibility to ensure that such information is processed lawfully, fairly, transparently and securely.
The NDPC therefore warned educational institutions that are yet to comply with its existing data protection compliance directives to take immediate steps to achieve compliance.
The Commission said it would continue to exercise its regulatory mandate to protect the privacy rights of Nigerians and ensure that organisations processing personal data comply with the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023.
Microsoft is planning to unveil its new Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as next month, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the plans.
The company introduced its Maia AI chip in November 2023 but has lagged rivals such as Alphabet and Amazon in scaling up its in-house chip efforts as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia’s costly processors.
Google began recognizing revenue from direct sales of its custom AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units, in the quarter ended June, while Amazon has also seen growing adoption of its processors, including its Trainium chips.
Microsoft has been in talks with chipmaker TSMC to secure manufacturing capacity for more than 300,000 units of the chip for delivery in 2027, according to the report. It is also looking to significantly ramp up production and persuade major cloud customers such as Anthropic to adopt the chip.
Microsoft ultimately aims to secure capacity for more than 1 million Maia 300 chips, though component supplies and ongoing capacity negotiations with TSMC could constrain its plans, according to the report.
It unveiled its second-generation Maia 200 in January, built by TSMC using 3-nanometer technology.
Microsoft packed the chip with a significant amount of SRAM, a type of memory that can provide speed advantages for AI systems handling large numbers of user requests.
X has announced plans to discontinue its Revenue Sharing programme and introduce a new Original Content Rewards programme to reward creators for producing original content on the platform.
The social media company announced the changes at the weekend in a post on its X Creators handle, saying the new programme would reward creators who contribute original content.
“Today, we’re introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new way to reward creators who bring original ideas, expertise, reporting, creativity, and commentary to X,” the company said.
X said it would stop accepting new enrolments into the Revenue Sharing programme from Friday, while existing participants would continue earning until September 7, 2026.
“Starting today, we’re no longer accepting new enrollments into Revenue Sharing,” it said.
According to the company, existing Revenue Sharing participants will receive three final payouts, with two scheduled for August 14 and August 28, while the final payment for earnings accrued through September 7 is expected around September 11.
X said existing Revenue Sharing participants would begin getting access to apply for the new programme from September 8, subject to meeting its eligibility requirements.
The first payout under the Original Content Rewards programme will be made on August 28, 2026, while existing Revenue Sharing creators who enrol in the new programme from September 8 will receive their first payment on September 25.
Under the new programme, eligible creators will earn from qualified impressions generated by their original content, with payments made every two weeks.
X defined qualified impressions as unique impressions from Premium users on the Home Timeline feed, where at least 50 per cent of a post is visible.
On the other hand, “The following are excluded from qualified impressions: impressions from the same account counted more than once per post; paid, promoted, or artificially generated impressions; and fraudulent impressions,” it said.
To qualify, creators must be at least 18 years old, live in a country where the programme is available, maintain an account in good standing and have either a personal or vusiness account.
They must also subscribe to X Premium, Premium+ or Premium Business, have at least 500 verified followers and record at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users within the previous 90 days.
X said creators must also regularly post original content to remain eligible.
“We want to recognize creators who break news, share expertise, tell stories, create entertainment, and contribute meaningful perspectives to the conversation,” the company said.
The platform said original content could include threads, videos, memes, graphics, illustrations, reporting, analysis, commentary and reactions that add meaningful value to existing conversations.
It said creators who use content produced by others would need to add meaningful commentary, context, analysis, humour or creative transformation for such posts to qualify.
“Building on existing conversations is a core part of X, but simply reposting someone else’s content is not enough,” it said.
X said minor edits such as cropping, filters, borders, watermarks, speed adjustments or simple text overlays would generally not qualify as meaningful transformation on their own.
It also warned that content copied or substantially reproduced from another creator, content downloaded and re-uploaded from X or another platform without being the original author’s, automated content, disinformation and misleading content would be ineligible.
The company said accounts that violate the programme’s requirements could be temporarily or permanently removed from it, depending on the severity of the violation.
It added that creators would be responsible for ensuring they had the necessary rights, permissions or licences to use content created by others.
“Original content is content you personally create that reflects your own voice, perspective, expertise, or creativity,” X said.
The company said the new programme was intended to reward creators who make the platform more valuable by bringing original ideas and perspectives to its conversations.
“The Original Content Rewards Program is designed to reward the creators who start them, shape them, and move them forward,” it said.
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