A huge swath of the African population lacks any form of identification. This makes it difficult for financial institutions and other companies to conduct KYC (know your customer) protocols and issue spills into various facets of life, leading to financial exclusion and denial of government services. KYC guidelines, including government regulations, are meant to prevent…
Rama Sridhar, EVP of Digital, Emerging Partnerships and New Payment Flows across Asia Pacific at Mastercard, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live in ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Rama tackles the issue of digital exclusion across Southeast Asia and shares how Mastercard is addressing such challenges through pioneering programs and new technologies. Watch…
Matt Mehlbrech is VP of IT for CoorsTek, Inc., where he leads the global IT organization. Headquartered in Golden, Colorado, CoorsTek is a privately held, family-owned global supplier of engineered ceramics and advanced materials to customers across industries from semiconductor manufacturing and energy and defense to medical devices, agriculture, and household goods. It employs more…
Sandbox began life as a secretive division of Google parent company Alphabet in 2016, and in March 2022 became a company in its own right, Sandbox AQ. The A is for artificial intelligence, and the Q is for quantum, says CEO Jack Hidary. The company plans to apply those technologies in the development of software-as-a-service…
Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. More specifically, Rasmussen is boosting her spend on cybersecurity to help manage risk, a key element for enabling Ceridian’s planned global expansion. Some of the…
What if there were a free, globally accessible, and open framework that could help your team map attacks, visualize strengths and weaknesses in your environment, and understand where you can strengthen controls to protect critical assets against attackers? That would be a tremendous boon for your security team, right? Here’s some great news: that tool…
Digital maturity in the Australian construction industry is fragmented according to the Australian Broadband Advisory Council’s Construction Expert Working Group scoping study, which looked into opportunities and barriers for the take up of tech in the construction sector. The study also found that the take up of digital technologies varies significantly across industry segments, and…
By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software In December 2021, Broadcom Software published our blog: Predictions for 2022. We will now explore each of these predictions in more depth with this blog series. For this blog our topic is edge computing. The future has a way of quickly…
Due to the rise of “big tech”, the federal government has gotten more involved in the tech sector in recent years. Due to this shift, top tech companies are increasingly partnering with the government to not only further their own success but also the success of the United States. By working together with the federal…
Last year, Dow took a bold step to make better use of its data. With a goal of eliminating isolated islands of data and making better use of business intelligence as an enterprise asset, the company launched an internal organization that seamlessly integrated IT and the company’s global business units under one umbrella. The structure…