Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 41 | Page 26

NEWS Airtel Uganda and Avaya p work and learning in Ugand Airtel, one of Uganda’s leading providers of prepaid, postpaid mobile and 4G services, has partnered with Avaya to enable organisations to implement remote working and learning initiatives following the government’s decision to limit access to offices, schools and universities to curb the spread of COVID-19. of services and educatio with Avaya supports key enabling organisations safety of workers, stude as their top priority, whi minimum disruption to said Airtel Uganda Man VG Somasekhar. Through the partnership, Avaya will offer organisations in Uganda full-feature access to its flagship collaboration app, Avaya Spaces, on a complimentary basis through Airtel Uganda. Avaya Spaces is a cloud meeting and team collaboration solution that goes beyond integrating chat, voice, video, online meetings and content sharing. “We fully support the range of measures being taken by the government to slow the spread of the Coronvirus pandemic. At the same time, we understand the challenges that these measures bring to the delivery Saicom completes migrati drive productivity Saicom Voice Services has been appointed as a Google Cloud Partner (GCP) in South Africa and has completed its own migration to G Suite that has resulted in enhanced productivity and team collaboration in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirement to work from home during the lockdown in South Africa. “Our clients continue to look for ways to collaborate onli appointment as a Goog means we can assist the teams closer together in said Saicom Chief Techn Greg de Chasteauneuf. Since its migration to G seen productivity increa 14 INTELLIGENTCIO